We Are Creatures Built On A Foundation Of Want
That want is the path that will lead us home.
We Are Creatures Built On A Foundation Of Want.
Sometimes that wanting is nestled so deep it dare not show itself, for fear of being seen and known in a way that makes it too real to be denied.
Sometimes that want becomes a small, hard kernel of longing that you can’t speak, because to speak it would be to make it real for the world. and to make it real for the world would be to acknowledge that it is not what is true in the here and now, that it may never be.
Because this is true. What you want may never be yours to know. It may never have been or it may never be again.
There is no way to be human and not know this — to not hold the truth of this, gritty and hard between your teeth, to swallow it down and give it a home in your being.
It doesn’t matter what it is that you want.
A love.
A life.
To make your art.
To speak truth without repercussions.
To be fully you without the constant threat of losing.
Infinite tenderness.
Holy justice.
The wild taste of true…
