For All Those Times (All I Need)

What do you want?
Is the wide eyed stranger
brushing past your shoulder
What do you want?

Is the familiar faced friend

Trying to comprehend
What do you want?
Is the mirror's favorite question

longing for an answer

What do you need?

All that you need is within one breath

To drift with the currents in the ocean

To claw toes into the sand

so deep-- you forget where your feet began

To pour out all your passion

To drag yourself out of your fatality

And to breathe a breath of reality

All that you need is within one step

To rise when the sun has run out of promises

To peer thoughts beyond what you’ve lost

So far-- you forget how much it has cost

To lose grip of what you kept

To ignore past you can’t alter

And to direct one step of steps forward

All that you need is within one
lie

To cover the rush of blood by a single cut

To fear what it is you must admit

So brief-- you forget how it took a matter of seconds

To think you mend when you defy

To not worry about the proof

And to lie with lies in search of truth

All that you need is not what you want

So what do you need?

Is the truth not told from a lie

Hoping to be identified

What do you need?

Is the cold desperate chance

waiting for the warmth of your hand

What do you need?

Is the unfailing honest wind

giving all that it could ever give

All that we need is forgiveness.

Without forgiveness we could not live

For taking people, places, and things for granted

For telling a lie when truth taste better than the world mentioned

For not being thankful towards air that releases tension

For making a fool out of yourself

by living your life

the way

that you

intended

For not one breath, not one step, not one lie but for all of those times

So next time the stranger

Brushes past your shoulder

A familiar faced friend

Tries to comprehend

Or your glass reflection

Wants to ask the question

What do you want?

What do you need?

Say forgiveness.