By Liz
Date: 2002 Jun 14
Comment on this Work
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Wishes

I wish I smoked.
I wish I was dark-eyed
and crazy
spinning the world
on a string
casing the joint like
my own personal boutique
everything mine for the taking.

I wish I was older
cynical, jaded, bitter
and married
so that hope
wouldn't swell and stretch
and crack my heart
and leave me desperate.

I wish you were anyone
but who you are.
I wish loving you
would not be a bomb
exploding in this family.
I wish  that when
the choice was mine
I had made the right one.