wishes

I wish that this was enough

days like this

with music and words

that simple pleasures could sustain me

that peace like this could contain

I wish that time and space and walls

and houses did not exist

I wish that I didn’t have to eat and sleep

I wish there was only this

I wish this heart within my chest

pounding out rhythms and beats

I wish that it was the breath of life

keeping death from me

I wish that all I had to do was pick up

this guitar and sing

I wish it would take away the rest of the world

I wish that it wasn’t a dream

I wish that on sidewalks with streetlights shining

that I could find my way

I wish that the places I want to go

were real or could be someday

I wish that you could hear me

as I silently whisper your name

I wish that it would turn your head

I wish you remembered my name

I wish I hadn’t broken in pieces

and fallen on to the floor

I wish that you had cut your feet

as you walked through and over me

I wish that there were scars on you

that you touched sometimes and felt

I wish that my words tattooed across your back

were across your chest instead

I wish that you could see me

and that I could look back at you

I wish that my hand could touch your face

that my fingers could make you feel

I wish that once upon a time

wasn’t a story in a book

I wish that hollow had truly become

where we had found ourselves whole

 

 

                                         the tattoo was real,
                                           this is the stencil