What is desire?
Perhaps a feeling that lights your pulse on fire?
Or that lust felt for those you admire?
Maybe it's a magnetic pull that draws your ire?
What is love?
Can it take the form of a dove?
Or is it family you think of?
Does it truly come from somewhere above?
What is hope?
Will it be found at the end of a rope?
Or from words spoken from a pope?
Perhaps some find it in a fantasy trope?
What is happiness?
Would it be found by your finesse?
Or will it leave behind only woeful sadness?
Do some only find it in madness?
What is a dream?
Could it be all that it may seem?
Or just another thing that used to gleam?
Who knows when life again will teem?
What is life?
Is it better ended with a knife?
Should it be spent alongside a wife?
Why, then, do we see so much strife?
