A Great Hunger

Prince Feisal: The English have a great hunger for desolate places. ~ Lawrence of Arabia

A great hunger. That's compulsion,
whether eating (having nothing to do
with nutritional needs) or drinking,
gambling or drugging, shopping
or controlling...compulsion,
the great hunger. But hunger
can be positive, a goal, a desire,
a dream. It just depends
whether it be a millstone
around your neck
or a leash, a lead,
a tie to that which attracts,
that which beckons.
A great hunger for desolate places?
How much better one for locales
and points we long to attain.