Wanting for Nothing

What people believe they want
Haunts them in too strong a way,

Until almost everyone
You talk to has their own way

Of staring far, far away.
Is it the intensity

Or the density of wants?
How ferociously

You want or how many wants
Cluster around you at once?

Either way, not so simple
As a straightforward desire,

Given belief is in there.
It reminds you, you can’t be sure

Of one thing about wanting
Except you’ve encountered it.

What you’re convinced you want now
May be the last thing you’d want

In another hour. What haunts
You then might be what you miss

Out on today, not wanting
It, you thought, at all. So what

Want do you want, and why that?
See? You’re already haunted.