MAKING WISHES

MAKING WISHES

10-31-2023

I'm nonchalant

Standing with my back against a wall

Watching people

Scanning faces

Making wishes

About happy places

That I would like to go..

I wish I had your shoes

To walk the miles you have been

Taste the scenes

that you have seen

Maybe share that pain behind your smile

So you don't bear it alone..

I wish I had your face

To feel the astonishment

Of every trace

You've left in your wake

To know just once

How it feels

To be the center of the world...

I wish I could fly

Like seabirds fly

Spending hours soaring over crashing waves

Above the sea

Never stopping,

Like gods powerful and proud

Seeing sights a mere mortal can never ken

To taste the wind

As it carries you

For mile upon mile as you sing...

I wish I was a child once more

To relive the moments of innocence

Of everything being a first

And jaded is not a word yet holding sway

Nor understood...

I wish I could ask God

Are you real?

And if he assures me he is

I want to ask him WHY?

Neil Diamond sings,

"They have sweated beneath the same sun

Looked up and wondered at the same moon

And wept when it was all done

For being done too soon."

I wish I had more time...

Peace