Swallowed Want

What happens to a swallowed Want?

Does it wallow in the hallow caves of your heart?

Or does it slide down into your belly?

And dissolve into –Deadly–

Acid.

Rain.

Does it get absorbed into a vein

And drift its way up to your brain,

Contaminating every thought?

(The live ones, the dormant ones, the future ones…)

When it is swallowed,

Does a remnant remain on your tongue?

And gradually gurgle boiling bubbles

Erupting into fiery lava

Burning anyone in its way?

In the humid darkness of your living body,

What happens to a swallowed Want?

Does it inform?

Or does it transform?

Does a Want want?

And if so, what does it want?

To be followed?

Or simply not be swallowed?