From the Archives: Famished Craving Pt 3

Famished Craving

the attention of others,

the fascination of the famous,

and the need for faith

Think now

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors

And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,

Guides us by vanities. Think now

She gives when our attention is distracted

And what she gives, gives

with such supple confusions

That the giving famishes the craving

T.S. Eliot, Gerontion