Give

'give what you wanted to get'
words like stinging rain,
to a flesh that still remembers
what it was
to give like that,
to give what it wanted
to feel so much,
to give because it hurt
to not feel,
to give because the pain
of not receiving
was stifling, heart-wringing,
to give because it could
keep alive that dream,
to give because,
not
simply give.