The Need

Is it bad to need you so much?
If you have to disrobe the clock of self
to please the image of my need,
yes!

But I need, I need, I need to feel I need
I'm alone without my need.
How can I give up my need?
I'll gladly give up all else
but please
not my need!
My need has no name
but it is all that I am.
How can I yield this to the void?
My need is my friend!
My need has been with me
since before the beginning.
I know my need is not healthy
but ha.
It is my blanket
my skin
and no one can strip it from me!
My need, my Need, My NEED
It is safety no matter if it suffocates.
I HEAR YOU SAY THAT THERE IS MORE THAN MY NEED.
If I give you my need, 
you will only replace it with your need!
And then, whom will I be but your need
My need, My need is me!

I know that this need
my need is crap.
I know that when I extend my hand
and someone grabs hold
Oh, the joy!
Yes, I am more than my need
but the need fills
overflows, overwhelms, what I am.
The need is a void
that has sucked what I am away!
Am I a  stranger in my own body?
This doesn't feel right.
I hear the need whisper in my inner ear.
No, this isn't right
and I haven't been right for such a long time!
I am more than my need
and the need will be with me
until I have no more need for it.
The need needs me more than I need it.
I am me with a need.
I will be me without a need someday!