Unmet Needs

All this wandering, searching and striving

have you ever asked your

tender self

What is it I really need?

If you asked would you have any sense of

where to begin to answer from?

Would your mind get busy and answer

With riddling and ranting

Or

Would your heart bust open and wail

From your deepest self

Needs and wants

Are entirely different processes on the interior.

Needs stemming from a deep yearning and longing

Wants from purely analytical origins.

To be guided by needs one must learn to hold the

Full catastrophe of the deepest self

Allowing the wailing to come to the surface.

Living in the place of realizing the

Unmet needs.

      Lori Ellis~McKinney (2014)