The hunger

and a man sat alone drenched deep in sadness
and all the animals drew near him and said:
we do not like to see you so sad...
Ask us for whatever you wish and you shall have it.
The man said: I want to have good sight.
The vulture replied you shall have mine.
The man said: I want to be strong.
The jaguar said: you shall be strong like me.
Then the man said: I want to know the secrets of the earth.
The serpent replied: I will show them to you.
And so it went with all the animals.
And when man had all the gifts, he left.

Then the owl said to the other animals:
"Now the man knows much and is able to many things."
The deer said: "The man has all that he needs. Now his sadness will stop."
But the owl replied: "No, I saw a hole in the Man, Deep like a hunger he will never fill."
It is what makes him sad and what makes him want. he will go on taking and taking.
Until one day the world will say: "I am no more and I have nothing to give."

You reach out to grasp and you never grasp.