Wish List

I’m saving up my wishes

in a dandelion jar

Blowing out the candles,

summer fireflies and stars

Pinning all my dreams

on a broken wing and hope

Tying knots in rainbows,

mending promises I broke

I’m throwing pieces to the wind

and picking up the caution

Bending back the grains of time

til sands bring revolution

Crushing crooked ceilings

and breaking glass beneath

Filling up my pockets

lucky clovers, lost of leaves

I’m writing future history

with ash on paper fear

Painting my new destiny

in wax poetic tears

I’m crossing heart and fingers

hope to die, none left to give

A life will love that lingers

spent, of all I have to live