The difference between wanting & needing is one leaves you feeling empty inside, while the other leaves you waking up in strange hours of the night and grasping for a presence that was never there and tracing back memories of breaths that no longer mean anything and have no purpose other than to remind you of everything you never had. The difference between wanting and needing is the breaking point. The breaking point of need is immediate; you are let down quick, you saw it coming, you were prepared for the worst. The breaking point of wanting never comes. It sits idly in the background and makes little noise so you never know; you never see it coming, you feel it in your bones like a premonition but the fear of never receiving the love keeps you from ever stopping this madness before it's too late. You want and then you get, but what you receive is a heaping pile of stinking disappointment and not a **** thing to show for it besides the watery rims of your eyes and the meager shrug of your shoulder whenever someone asks "What's wrong?"