Desire

At first I tried 
damming my desire at
its source from where 
it erupted from ground 
but that simply spread
backwards to outlying fields 
turning prairie to swamp 
Removing the barriers I
innocently watched as to
where the craving wished 
to go and at
its end built ramparts 
containing it there but 
all withholding it did
was breed parasites and 
other nasty things that 
fed upon another’s flesh 
Removing them I let
it go and upon
finding its freedom eventually 
ventured into another becoming 
not two but one 
and this one was 
mightier than the two 
ever were and they 
scraped and grew but
not all rivers make 
it to the ocean 
Land is a trickster
giving enough to excite
never enough to warrant 
it absorbs never absolves 
had this land beneath 
my desire been rock
then we would’ve washed 
to sea but instead 
it was sand the
last bastion the final 
silent fortress and there
is where desire died 
there long before I
knew that I would