This Hunger

This hunger that causes so much pain

Is within us from the first breath;

It causes us to rise from being pithy moths

To being large-hearted zealous messiahs. 

This hunger born of the noodles you ate

Last night to the desire to pen that poesie

And bag all the laurels of the world.

This hunger without which you would be

A nobody, causing you to feel the breeze

And a symphony. This hunger that causes

So much pain is there like an itch waiting

To be scratched, rising now from sadness

To happiness in the other, this hunger

That causes so much pain. 

kind to mother earth

Starting with our human realm

We can summon courage and dream

Of saving Mother Earth, of being kind to her

And dare to win her over; do you dare? 

The sun that shines on us nourishing us

Doesn't charge us a farthing and illuminates us, 

The water in the rivers and seas replenish

Us 

And quench our thirst; so with this thirst

For knowledge where do we seek to go

From here in this man eat man world;

Let's take the first step and start with kindness

From now on, kind to Mother Earth, kind to all! 

hair falls out

As your hair falls out and I collect it

And hand it over to you I am giving you

A sense of what it would be to be

Youthful again; cheer up: age is just a number.