Poetry Friday - To want what won't be given

To want what won't be given is a foolishthing, since life so often makes us wait,then gives us nothing, but we are a mulishspecies. Stubborn is a human trait.I save myself in hopes of some great task:I count my steps, I study deprivation,I circumscribe even my dreams. I askfor nothing, yet I hope for my salvation.Some love is keeping faith. Some faces hauntus for a lifetime, flouting