I want to quit my job
at the restaurant

Escape with my beloved
to a mild-weathered mountain-
sweet spot

Put hammer to nail
and start building
our lives’ work

Plant the seeds our children
will watch bud, blossom
and fruit

if we ever have any

I want as many long years
together as we can get

I want to live to be 100

I want to watch the world
evolve into a state I can bear
to leave it in – in peace

I want to open my eyes
in a place I know God exists

where the souls of everyone
I love welcome me in an embrace
of feathered wings

I want them to say: “See?
You were right! We’ve been
here all along.”

More than anything,
I want you by my side

And if the time comes
to make the long journey
in another body,

I want you to follow me
into the next life.

– mrg