Give me life or give me death

Give me love but don’t make me hate.

Give me light don’t give me the darkness.

Give me not wanting, not a thing to need

Give me the things not of the earth

Give me the man and boy I once was

Give me the innocence and not the shame

Give me the quiet one and not the fool

But if you can’t give me anything then I understand

I can accept that as I sit and wait for nothing

~ Marc Carver

  Basingstoke, UK