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HUNGER
<p>Some hunger is not meant to be fed.</p><p><br/></p><p>If you truly want something you cannot have,</p><p><br/></p><p>and you keep it before your eyes,</p><p><br/></p><p>everything else becomes harder to swallow.</p><p><br/></p><p>Even when you eat,</p><p><br/></p><p>it tastes like dust.</p><p><br/></p><p>Like a taboo,</p><p><br/></p><p>a curse served on a silver plate.</p><p><br/></p><p>Desire starves you.</p><p><br/></p><p>Disappointment feeds on you.</p><p><br/></p><p>One steals your appetite.</p><p><br/></p><p>The other devours whatever remains.</p><p><br/></p><p>A table can groan beneath abundance,</p><p><br/></p><p>yet mean nothing</p><p><br/></p><p>when your hunger belongs to only one thing.</p><p><br/></p><p>When your eyes worship the unreachable.</p><p><br/></p><p>When your hands tremble at the thought of touching</p><p><br/></p><p>what was never yours to hold.</p><p><br/></p><p>The cruelest famine is not an empty stomach.</p><p><br/></p><p>It is a full life</p><p><br/></p><p>haunted by a single absence.</p><p><br/></p><p>So the body eats.</p><p><br/></p><p>The mouth chews.</p><p><br/></p><p>The throat swallows.</p><p><br/></p><p>The heart waits.</p><p><br/></p><p>And the soul...</p><p><br/></p><p>remains hungry.</p>
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