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What we wish for

 

 

Watch out what you wish for;

For it might just come true.

Cause when you wish upon a star

It does not matter who you are.

So careful how you wish.

Careful how you choose.

 

For just as there are wishes for the crown jewels,

or to live in a great palace,

there are also wishes for destruction,

of hatred and of malice.

For there are billions of wishes, sitting on a shelf so to speak,

waiting for you to help yourself.

 

A family that is loving will have their hearts placed at rest.

A daily result of wishing each other the very best.

 

Wars come and wars go, /

a million wishes in a ‘bloody river flow.’

 

‘Positive or negative’, your wish is at your own command.

Such is the way with the species of man.

 

Such is the way with the human practicing gods.

Wishes at our finger tips, / at the slightest of nods.

 

Wishing this and wishing that,

experimenting sometimes with fire.

For always the 'wish' teaches,

the lower or the higher.

 

Yet we cannot seem to own up to ‘this power that we have,’

believing instead it comes from the ‘inherent good’ or the ‘inherent bad.’

Believing instead that wishes only,

sometimes come true.

Often when it's ‘better for 'the me,'

 as opposed for, 'the you.'

 

But the truth is;

 

when we wish upon the stars,

it does not matter at all, who / or where / or what we are,

for wishes always come true

as simply as this sound.

 

For every thoughts a wish,

on a great comic, merry go round.

 

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au   dominicj7@poetry.net.au 28/2/99