Balance

I feel a heat, I'm getting warm

My wants and needs have left me torn.

My wants consume like fires breath,

My needs a balm, a soothing rest.

Should I combust and burn from within?

Or stay the course and let my light be dimmed?

The choice I make decides my fate.

To rejoice and blaze or become sedate.

To embrace the flame would be unwise.

Hold back and refrain to meet the needs of life.

My life ablaze is love unencumbered.

Foolish wants blow needs asunder.

Should my needs take lead and push wants aside,

A smoother path shall I walk through life.

If I had one wish for the road I choose,

That my wants and needs be interfused.

To live a life of steady heat,

Of wants and needs that sometimes meet.

And when they differ, let me choose correct,

So my wants and needs again intersect.