Be Longing, by Jesse Greist

Longing for brevity

Longing for levity

Longing for short cuts to YouTube longevity

Longing for the win without going to practice

A short sighted gulf scribed on re-written atlas

Longing for quick time, instant gratification

To build things like buildings is short term edification

Elongating these stanzas reveals ee shortcomings

E longing for love opens us to downloaded fraud things

Be longing

be thronging

Group songing

Ping ponging back and forth, with no final destination

This nation’s shortchange is a panhandled vacation

We’re longing for something

Something tiny and precious

Short lived in the mind but guaranteed to refresh us

It’s out there we know

Hiding just past our worries

Crisp and clean as the snow

But can’t wade through the flurries

 Stop longing! You’re only shorting yourself

There’s no belonging that comes from great wealth

Belonging is never “you’re all in except me”

It’s shorthand for knowing I fall before we.