Lovestruck+-+David+Tsai

Quite finite are the things that people need : Food, water, shelter, and the air that they breathe. Inessentials one also seeks; Without feelings of strength, he is indeed weak. Safe, happy, and loved a human must feel In order to function in a world so real.

He is caught in a power too real When all he knows is a newfound need To know how someone else might feel. He now knows naught but how to breathe. The thought of knowing makes him weak, But by the urge of his heart, he seeks.

Not concrete is what he seeks ; What he wants is not very real. It is a force in no way weak; It is one of the things that people need. We must do more than simply breathe; There is a force we cannot help but feel.

More meaning does he learn to feel In bits and pieces as he seeks. It comes in waves if he tries to breathe And makes him realize that it is real. Food and water he does not need Because he ignores that he becomes weak.

The barrier does swiftly turn weak , Yielding to only to what he can feel. What was a want is now a need Another heart, clearly, is what he seeks. Disappointment would seem more real, Though he would likely cease to breathe.

Eat, drink, and remember to breathe; It would not do to be physically weak. Although the best could not possibly be real, There might still be more to what you will feel. For a counterpart a soul always seeks : Another thing humans infallibly need.

It is heard but not possibly real! He, at last, holds what he seeks. Newly found is a reason to breathe, other than being what bodies need. Now his benefactor is what he did feel : the same thing that had made him weak.

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