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We wish for impossible things

We wish for impossible things

A poem

 
There are some things you should wish for
with your half-baked, heart ached toss of a coin,
These are your wishing well moments, your bubble dreams
these wishes, they are impossible things.

Yesterday, once today, is memory
and blue black bruises fade to brown
I wished for clean white kisses, yellow mornings
these wishes, they are impossible things.

You reach right handed, left bloody
and one time caress is a slap
I wanted soft touches, babies and white weddings
these wishes, they are impossible things.

Sometimes I am so much smaller then this
and curl in a corner and cry
and in the darkness, there pain sings
these wishes, they are impossible things.

Once upon a promise they spoke magic
and led me then to believe
beneath my shoulders were angels wings
and so I wish for impossible things.
 
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    Though it started off slow for me, this piece really impressed me. The pattern of contrasts and changes is really nice. Each stanza seemed very well written - I wouldn't change any of them. I really learned to love the last line, too.
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