Wasted Wishes

Crumpled heap I can’t breath I can’t sleep

A puddle of tears in the floor

I know that you left me, won’t choose me, forgot me

And I don’t know what to wish for anymore.

Secret and sacred and whispered at night

Poured into stars up above

I’ve sent all my wishes to inked skies and full moons

And yet I still don’t carry your love,

And I want to know, I’m begging

Where do the wasted wishes go

Because a broken heart can heal

But I'm left with this hole in my soul.

And if I could find

Where they fell behind

I could make a patch

And have them back

And use the to fill this void.

So I have to know, I’m begging…

Where did my wasted wishes go.

Struggling and reeling throug every fresh day

Muted colors of who I used to be

Scraps and remnatns, all tattered and torn,

Shards and fragments of a formerly whole me.

And if I could find

Where they fell behind

I could have them back

And make a patch

And use them to fill this void

I want to know, I’m begging

Where did my wasted wishes go

Because a broken heart can heal

But I’m left with this goddamn hole in my soul.

All the wishes in the world

Couldn’t bring your love to me

And if I could find where they fell behind

I could have them back…

…and make a patch…

…and put them back in my soul…

…so that I could once more be whole.

-Annie V.