Childhood Fantasies

i was six and you were nine you would pack sunlight into a jar tell me it was mine. at night it lit my room. when the stars were out you'd throw stones to wake me up. butterfly nets in hand we'd catch stars from the sky save them in our pockets. i'd hand you my water gun you’d load one at a time pull the trigger and yell "quick wish on a shooting star." now twenty and more old i still have the jars i still own every wish i uttered silently on those moonlit eves. it was you in my dreams in my smile always kind. i only had one wish you and i clad in the innocence of those times, of dreams and laughs i only wished it would never end, and your sunshine safe in my memories our childhood sealed in those jars. Maurice Yvonne Sponsor: gautami phookan Contest Name:The Sweetest Touches of Verse