A certain hunger

Mar 30, 2025

Cross-posted by Mercurial

"The poem depicts hunger as something far beyond food- more like a restless yearning that lives in the body and mind at once. The imagery of biting and searching brings urgency and rawness, yet it also feels deeply human."

- lyw

There's a certain hunger

In the pitch black space

Of my still beating heart.

There's a certain hunger

For things I want but I can't have,

For things I have but I can't see,

For things I don't have and I can see.

There's a certain hunger

A passion that bites

Bites the rotten apple of my dreams,

Bites a wish frozen in the arctic ice.

There's a certain hunger

It makes me want to devour the world,

Feel it in my stomach

Let it fill me until I throw up.

There's a certain hunger

I feel it in my stomach, it aches

It makes me wander for miles,

Searching for the perfect taste.

There's a certain hunger

That makes me want to chew the world,

Eat it with the fury of a starving child

So I can feel my fingers

Finally touching life.