By Linda Goodman
Date: 13 August 2000

When You Wish.....

during my teens and early twenties
all the high school girls and college women I knew
were searching for love..in a crowd
with too many false starts
changing their favorite songs
each time they changed partners
         in the romantic game of musical hearts

while I walked through those growing years
              more or less alone
failing each attempt I made to...belong
as I hummed the melody to my own secret song...like

        "when you wish upon a star"

or was it.."someday my prince will come..."?

how corny..how square
to believe that love should, somehow..be fated
how silly...how childish

                but...I waited

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