A Need I Need
For instance, I open my doors
Give you reasons for why
Why I need you
No measure for stances
No measure for reasons
I be in your stances
Working with circumstances.
I halt in dark,
Pursuing the darkness of your light
You are a need as the space
The space between you and me.
I get cold in summer
In the absence of you for
Which I need you
I ask you for your living
The living in my living
Compare nothing, for instance
The birth of you And death of mine.
abhimanyu kumar.s
Dated 2017
Oct 5, 2025
Oct 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM UTC
A Need I Need
For instance, I open my doors
Give you reasons for why
Why I need you
No measure for stances
No measure for reasons
I be in your stances
Working with circumstances.
I halt in dark,
Pursuing the darkness of your light
You are a need as the space
The space between you and me.
I get cold in summer
In the absence of you for
Which I need you
I ask you for your living
The living in my living
Compare nothing, for instance
The birth of you And death of mine.
abhimanyu kumar.s
Dated 2017
Thala Abhimanyu Kumar S’s poem “A Need I Need” explores the depth of emotional dependence and the spiritual essence of love. The poet opens with vulnerability — “I open my doors, give you reasons for why I need you” — signaling honesty and surrender. He admits that his feelings defy logic or measurement, suggesting that love exists beyond reason or circumstance. The phrase “Working with circumstances” hints at the poet’s acceptance of life’s unpredictability while holding on to the emotional stability the beloved provides. The imagery of “darkness of your light” beautifully conveys paradox — the beloved’s presence illuminates and mystifies at once, creating a profound emotional duality. Love, in this sense, becomes both need and enigma — as necessary and intangible as the “space between you and me.”
In the later verses, the poem intensifies its emotional resonance. The line “I get cold in summer in the absence of you” expresses how the beloved’s absence defies natural order, illustrating the poet’s emotional inversion — warmth turns cold without love. The repeated emphasis on “need” moves beyond desire; it becomes existential, a necessity for being. When the poet writes, “The living in my living” and contrasts “the birth of you and death of mine,” he suggests that his life finds meaning only through the other’s existence. The tone is introspective, intimate, and metaphysical — portraying love as both sustenance and surrender. Ultimately, the poem becomes a meditation on the inseparability of love and life, where the beloved’s presence defines the poet’s very sense of being.
