“Want” Poem

Want

By Ashley O’Hare

Want.

Four letter

with crippling weight.

Four letters

have followed me

since I was a child.

Who do I want to be?

Where do I want to live?

What do I want to have?
When do I want to leave?

How do I want to spend my time?

Want.

I never have an answer

when the question houses

those four letters.

Want.

I have never held

a clear definition

for the simple single syllable.

Want

does not even look

like a word anymore.