The Only Necessary Thing

I feel invisible

Feel like I'm drowning in blue light

Need something visceral

I'm in a trance standing in line

 

For all the things I'm told i need

To do what's expected of me

 

If we need one thing alone we

Need the only necessary thing

I am broken and lonely

Without the only necessary thing

 

It's inexplicable

How often I decline what's free

Endlessly divisible

Increasing paradoxically

 

Like the magic penny in that children's song

Give it away and it goes on and on

 

If we need one thing alone we

Need the only necessary thing

I am broken and lonely

Without the only necessary thing

 

In all of this greed its the thing that we need

It's the thing that we're for

We got so broken, it's more than a token of mutual self-need

I'm at a loss and fatigued

 

If we need one thing alone we

Need the only necessary thing

I am broken and lonely

Without the only necessary thing

 

If we need one thing alone we

Need the only necessary thing

I am broken and lonely

Without the only necessary thing

That thing

That thing

The only necessary thing