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wishing
by Emily G MyersI have to live everyday
- wishing -
I wish I were your pillow
your clothes
your front door
your books
something you see and touch everyday
a part of your routine
I wish I were the snow
the wind
the cold
the moon
or just anything at all
to get close to you
I wish I could fly
or run marathons
I wish I were a sailor
I wish I'd gotten my driver's license
any mode would do
if it would get me to you
and I have to live everyday
- knowing -
you won't see or touch me
I'm not a part of your routine
nothing supernatural or otherwise
can bring me to you
like Psyche on the wind
and I have to live everyday
- wishing -
02/17/2003 Author's Note: someone let me know if that mythological allusion is right... wasn't it Psyche brought down the mountain on the wind? hm... by the way "I wish I had a river I could skate away on..." - Joni Mitchell
Posted on 02/17/2003
Copyright © 2024 Emily G Myers
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Christopher Shin on 02/18/03 at 01:41 AM We all wish to be close to the one we love, but the tragic nature of love is that sometimes it is never returned. |
| Posted by D. Xavier Bari on 02/18/03 at 03:03 AM insanely sweet—in a good, universal way. |
| Posted by Meghan Helmich on 09/03/08 at 04:17 PM but if you were the cold weather, wouldn't you ultimately drive the subject away? *hugs* good poem, emily. |
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