Things To Want (2025)

First and foremost a home made of bricks
With a goddess to run it and a car like John Wick 
Nine hundred horses and an engine like thunder 
Streaming the Stones and Little Stevie Wonder 
Symphony Number Seven by Ludwig Van B 
How deep is the ocean, how glorious the sea.
Fabulous blue days and brisk chilly nights
Read me some Emily before you shut the light. 
Every day, each moment is uninsurable
The desire to live is unendurable.
Teach me then Spirit, to know things at last 
The world is made of water and so
Tough to grasp.
You brought me my wife
I followed her to the aisle
She asked me would I stay forever 
By her side through any trial.
Order and silence, quiet and rule
A root beer float and a swim through your pool 
Oscar Peterson just playing anything
A bullfrog’s foghorn and the first breath of Spring. 
Desire and dreams within us only grow
The urge to create, to persuade and to know.

– Henry J Ohrtman