Can I unmelt the candle
That's flame was blown out by your passing through
Almost as if too rekindle
What I felt for you but with someone new
I wish my most potent wish
That it was anything close to that simple
But even a man who was taught how to fish
Can get lost and float away on a passing ripple

©2024

I don't want to die
But every night
I wish to not wake up
I wish to no longer fight

©2024

I wish for someone to love me
in the way I love my cat.
That they’d spot me across the room and
rush upstairs for their camera.
Eager to capture the moment,
obsessed with me even as I’m
simply
existing.

Can I call you my unfulfilled wish?
For I longed for you with every breath, dreamed of you in countless nights.
Your presence lingered in every thought, your absence echoed in every heartbeat.
I envisioned our moments, delicate and divine, loved you in silence and in secret.
You became the prayer upon my lips, the desire woven into my soul.
I yearned for your every sense, every touch, every emotion.
I pursued you relentlessly, shed tears in the hope of your embrace.
I sacrificed my joy, endured pain to protect you.
I crossed every boundary to see your smile, poured my very essence into offering you happiness.

"I wish I may
I wish I might
Have this wish
I wish tonight"

What is the wish I wish,
To a mostly empty sky?
There is none
There's never one
I instead hold up
My carved up wrists
Eight feet high
And I don't wish,
I cry the question why
To no reply
"Same as last night" I sigh
Then wish the moon well
Before my last goodbye

©2024

In the bowl, you'll find the golden fish
Living for your entertainment, it swims, swish-swish

You stare at its sparkling scales, golden-rich
And it continues to swim in circles, swish-swish

You take the fish out with a twitch
But it can't get out of your grasp, swish-swish

You pull its scale off and give it a squish
But it stops struggling, swish-swish

So you plop it back into its enclosing dish
And it resumes its swimming, swish-swish

But you want it to stop swimming, it's an itch
So you stab it, and it stops, swish-swish

It could never get its last wish
As it falls to the bottom, swish-swish

In the bowl, you'll see the golden fish
Dying for your entertainment, it sinks, swish-swish.