i wish there were more ways to say that i found an oasis in the form of your touch i wish i could count the pains that i carry like satchels everyday strung off my shoulders i wish i knew why i refused to let them fall i wish gravity would just have its way with me toss me aside and find a new giddy little thing to run this so called world i wish i knew how to tell you that i want to be a bird not because they can fly away from here not because they grace their homes with bright colored feathers i could never adorn but because they are hollow they are hollowed out, weak, frail and somehow it makes them stronger or perhaps i wish not to be hollow but to filled with something other than you