Desperate.
What comes into your mind
With that 9 letter word?
Teenage girl.
Throwing herself at boys,
Giving herself away.
Or perhaps,
The image of someone
In trouble comes to mind.
I'm still young,
But I know desperation.
Nothing spells
D-E-S-P-E-R-A-T-E
like the guilty look
In a mother's eyes
When she lacks the money
To feed her children.
Her own hunger pains
Flee from her mind
When she hears her little girl's voice
Asking about dinner
Or hears her tummy growl.
Growling like everything that's wrong
With this world.
I'm all too familiar with that look,
All too familiar with that word.
Desperation isn't a "four letter word"
But it should be.