all the pointers they have shown

all the pointers they have shown,
that you & I need time alone ... 
(our busy lives are just a cover to keep ourselves one from the other) 

not just each other! 
a busy life will keep away the mortal truth of life's decay 
I'm fine just me! 
I'm free you see! 
Let's make a date! 
what's that? too late? 

There's duty & things that closeness brings 
 ... 
take response a bility 
some account a bility 
selfish gene a gility 
... 
well then ... 
Let it not be. 
not you, not me. 
we'll always find another! 
and yet . . . 
and yet, never to another. 

Oh hell. 
Just use me when you need me, find me when you will. 
my shadow's there beside you, a shadow there until 
there's no one else to need to 
or the minds have lost their will. 

Image (c) Author: Woodstock graffiti

Its not personal: Value and Need

(prelude: I was thinking ...)
What I do not need: it has no value
unless
I have it, own it
then another's need imposes
but if
I do not need that offer in return
Then give away what has no value
Or be entrapped by that which has no value
(well, that  seems easy, doesn't it?)

I do not need her
Does she have no value?
I do not need her yet I have her
Will another’s need attract her?
Will I feel the need to keep her?
I do not need her
Yet I keep her
Am I possessed by that which has no value?

(Interlude ...)
time imposes value from the past
I did not need it then
I did not need her then
I did not see what was before my very eyes
I did not need yet there indeed was value
Will I now pay the price of careless loss?
Am I possessed by that which had no value?

Image (c) Copyright Cyril Souchon