DESIRES NEVER DIE

• I died yesterday,
  As down went my desires
  Deathless Hydra-headed
  Desires,
  A Herculean effort
  Still puts no end to them
  And as a minute weds a minute
  A desire is born,
  (And the wish to vanquish them
  Is yet another).
  Jealousy, hatred all
  Have their seed in desire.
  And in ashes I lay defeated
  Only to rise Phoenix-like
  As a million other desires beckon
  Again and again.
  Defeat becomes a thought
  Defeated by desire