What I Need Is With Me

I do not need a golden crown adorned with jewels

I have no desire for a marble palace of white

I do not need a mansion atop a rolling hill

I do not require a life of lavish luxury

I do not need 2.5 children and a white picket fence

I give no attention to a life that doesn't fit me.

I have no need for the pale cobalt sky and clouds of white

I would not mind if it faded untill memory fails of it's splendor

I will not complain of what I earn and what life gives me

What I truly need above any other thing

What keeps me moving when nothing seems to be 

Are the songs and stories that I make and keep

Whether through voice or song or words I write

The one thing I truly need will forever be with me