What do I want? Probably an E (or S)

“What I Want”

I was wanting to know your music,

wanting to know your Song,

which I had found you play that night,

and still bring to mind at Dawn.

I was wanting to know what you had to Say,

Wanting your Words to stay,

for my mind, for my body, I still want

daily, morning, noonday, nightly.

I was wanting to catch your song again,

wanting a day in which to hum;

my music, All yours,

my song, Yours.

Now, whilst I am candid and unclad, laid out for you,

I know what I was wanting to know most,

Wanting to ask that day:

if I could hold your hand, and Sing With You all day.

On the trouble of love without e.

I wrote “What I Want” while down with the flu, completely out of it and writing of a feeling from a warmer, better time. Hard to do? Challenging? More than I can affirm. Where did I begin? End? How could I ever write a love poem without an “e?”

Well for one, love couldn’t occur. You can’t write it without the “e,” not correctly. But I think I learned from “What I want” that you can convey far more than you realize even when you take away a letter. Love, and the other minutiae I tried to convey, were perfectly capable of being told and felt with the remaining alphabet. And quite well, if I may add.

While I wrote, I thought a lot about why I could do it without the “e”. I’ve come to think that you can create of meaning even when you have an arm tied behind your back. I think you can if you think, you have to take advantage of your brain and your wide vocabulary to find other wording to get your point through. Furthermore, you have to reflect and learn what you truly want to convey, finding what would be fluff and filler, including only the important. Only, then you can write. Quite a challenge in writing, in my opinion.

Did I at more than one point want, more than anything, to put that little letter in when I thought the word couldn’t not be included? Definitely! Did I? No, and I have become all the better for it.


-Tina