980 - The Hunter Gatherer

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

to use the three words of the week in a composition.

The words this week are: 

asymmetrical, bare and crave.

The Hunter Gatherer

What do you crave?

I mean, what do you really want?

Keeps you up at night,

Gets you up early in the morning,

Captures and teases your imagination? (1)

What if you stop for a moment,

Strip your desire bare (2)

For a close but critical inspection? 

But the desire to have

And the pleasure of having

Are asymmetric.

You long, lust even, (3)

For as long as you take 

To achieve your kill;

The consummate 

And consuming hunter.

But next day?

A trophy

And a new hunt.

Could you be hunting

The wrong thing?

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1.  I hope you are not coveting the neighbour’s wife. 

They can be unreasonably touchy about this.

2.  See 1.

3.  See 1.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2017

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