Of Wishes...

 

I wish I could spill on paper

All those thoughts I cannot tell

In one tiny little lifetime

Full of love and longing’s swell

I wish I could gather on it

All those pieces of my heart

Shattered, scattered on lost moments

In fragmented, broken art

I wish I could find the ocean

That has claimed those quiet tears

Of love’s bittersweet emotion

Shed in secret through life’s years

I wish I could show you, darling

Love's rare intangible fray

What a little leap of lifetime

Never tells me how to say

© Janet Martin