[Sandwich Run] A Poem

One of the men we met at People's Park in Berkeley when Watermark made a Sandwich Run was a gifted poet and shared a few of his poems with us.

155.  1 Wish

A moonbeam lites the path to what I want…

      more than anything else, more than everything an’ nothing put together

    only who can grant wishes, who can I trust?

      More than Creation

      More than Death

      More than the Life given by the Sun

What I want Time can’t pay for

Freedom, Spiritual awakenings, moments with no one.

Higher an’ higher, farther than any dream.

More real than reality.

No kisses or instructions. Savage. I’m willing to give anything.

My Life, my sanity, every single capability

        every single possibility. Any chance to succeed

  I’d turn myself in…

For just this 1 wish…

The air I breathe. My last breath. Heat

                            Food

                            Water

                      an' Shelter

                            My manhood, my reason for Being.

                            Happiness, an all emotional stability…

      An’ things You can’t even begin to comprehend.

My car, my job, every single hair on my head that is curly.

My eyes so I can’t see

My heart so I can’t feel

What I want, if need I will kill

For just this 1 wish…

My nose an’ I cannot smell

My hands – I can’t feel or touch anything that isn’t right here.

                 I’d give my 3rd eye or even my health, stock options

                                    all my money an’ wealth

     Intuition an’ reasoning I want this more than whatever Hope can bring.

                                 I desire this because I’ve heard Truth sing.

                                                Realization for what I need

God give it to me on bended knee…

For just this 1 wish…

I wish, I wish…to breathe, be relived and cry freely.