I Wish Poem by Rex Mathew Mathew

I wish, among my thousand wishes,
To float among the mysteries of the night.
When the Moon beams its soulful smile,
When the darkness blankets the sleeping flowers
And when the frozen hour embraces my solitude,
I see my thousand wishes, my silent hopes
And my dreams etched in the ink of the night,
Sprinkled with the glitter of stars.
One day, I would soar like a bird
And touch those luminous skies
And with the cute grasp of my hand,
Bring them down and set my lamps alight.

I will chase the rainbow throughout my life
And search for Atlantis among brave waters.
I will remain a child all my life
And love the sunsets forevermore.
I will kiss my life that breathes in this night air
And never yield to the rules of reality and time.

Nevertheless, they will catch me and weigh me down
They will chain me and break my young wild legs.
They will make me a lifeless lump,
A robot that serves routine purposes
That eats and sleeps and nothing more.

Like treasure wasted among the barren sands
Like kingdoms lost to wars and storms,
Like all precious things lost to fate and time
I fear I will waste myself
And will never awaken the Zeus in me.