BOGUS DESIRE
Desire not! Desire not!
Your heart’s desire may be unreal;
Your hopes unweaved;
And your happiness flees.


Desire not! Desire not!
What you covet may be fake;
Your ambition may fade;
Like heated ice.


To desire bogus wants;
Is leaping in the dark;
Full of awe and shock;
And incomparable hoax.


Whoever is the happiest;
Often desire less.

Copyright© 2005 by Joseph Ojih