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# what need have I?
- URL: https://thedreampedlar.com/what-need-have-i/
- Published: 2014-06-04T04:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-08-06T23:13:03.000Z
- Author: Anitha Krishnan
- Tags: poetry

What need have I for a princess’s jewels  
When I have a frangipani perched on my fingers?

What need have I to swathe myself in velvet and cashmere  
When my skin is singed like sienna and burnished by the sun,  
And within it my heart is sheltered?

What need have I for heady perfumes  
When I can merely lie down on the parched earth  
And soak up the scent of the first showers of the season?  
Yes, there is a word for it,  
For the scent of rain on dry earth  
Petrichor (how beautiful it sounds!)  
It is now the fragrance of my skin  
And all my desires buried within

What need have I for birthdays and anniversaries  
When each day of life is a cause for celebration?

What need have I to fear the end  
When I have given my all to life  
And death has nothing left to strip away from me?