Desires

Desires lead the head

The present has fled

The future takes its place

Thoughts begin a race

When desires are starved

Awareness is preserved

Denying them isn’t cruel

For time will end their rule

Desires fear the night

It’s forced to take flight

A placeholder’s left behind

The morning will remind

Beholden to desires

Warmed by their fires

The heart’s forgotten

Where truth has trodden