I would have given anything.

I would have given anything

As I stand here today on the precIbus

of my life I have always wondered

what it would have been like t

have had everything

that I ever wanted, I mean sure, I have

a car that I can drive around town to

get me where I want to go, a home with

a roof over my head where I can fall

asleep on my bed and live, I have food

on the table so I do not go hungry,

clothes on my back that are new and

clean not used or dirty, a flat screen

television I can watch the news on

to see all of the people who have

nothing at all , but the one thing in

life that I have never known and always

wanted and I would have traded

everything I owned is how it felt to

be loved back by anyone at all, to

feel what love felt like when love wrapped

its arms around me holding me tight,

to hear what love sounded like when

it was whispered softly in my ear in the

middle of the night to smell the scent

of love left on the sheets of the bed and

pillow from the night before,

and its

sweet taste it left on my lips from your

kiss and me kissing all over your

beautiful body, so now that

I am

hanging off the edge of insanity

I will give anything I have to know that

out of all the love I have ever given

throughout my entire life is that

there is somebody out there somewhere

that ever loved me back.

Poet Richard M Knittle Jr.

A Poet's Journey