What I seek
Poem: What I seek
I need you to hug me because it’s Monday
I need you to hug me because it’s Tuesday
Wednesday the same
These daily desires I cannot tame
It’s beginning to look like it’ll be every day of the week
To be with you more than often is what I seek
Review: What I seek
‘Aww’ is what I say upon reading the first, second and third line of the poem. The poet is needing a hug. Hugs are important, aren’t they? Are they needed? YES is my answer to that. Here’s the science bit to explain why – It’s that instant hit of Oxytocin, the ‘love’ hormone that we all produce when we are feeling content because of the physical touch with loved ones, friends and our pets.
The Poet needs a hug at the start and up to the middle of the week. I then read on and I see that they have established a pattern. The actual ‘need’ is the thing that’s the pattern and not the daily hugs.
Are they yet to be had I wonder?
From more than one person, for every day of the week?
The poet may belong to various social groups perhaps?
Or there is someone special in the poet’s life?
A strong feeling of wanting an embrace is highly apparent and the poet cannot tame it. I can only think that they’ve had it before from a person or people and would like to experience it again.
It could be that the poet is referring to ‘time’ and ‘distance’ where both have teamed up and conspired against the poet and have been the rude and indiscriminate wedges that have created a gap in the first place. Boo hiss to that!
The line in the poem, ‘more than often’ is strong and intensifies the desire to be close. It sounds to me, that there has been separation, and the poet is looking to make up for lost time.
Repetition at the beginning of the poem acts like an echo to highlight and enhance the sentiment of what is needed.
I like the rhyming of ‘same’ with ‘tame’
and ‘week with seek’
We all need hugs to express love, affection and friendship. It’s the perfect non-verbal method of communication
A very short poem and it says so much.