The Wish

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The Wish by Lady Mary Chudleigh

 Remember that time you made the wish?

 I make a lot of wishes.

The time I lied to you
about the butterfly. I always wondered
what you wished for.

 What do you think I wished for?

I don't know. That I'd come back,
that we'd somehow be together in the end.

 I wished for what I always wish for.
 I wished for another poem.

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