Three Wishes
If I had three wishes and knew that they’d come true.
I’d go back in time. There are things that I’d redo.
I wouldn’t do them differently and change my today.
I would do them over again, in the very same way.
To hear my mother laughing, see my dad’s twinkling eyes,
hold my now-grown children when they were infant-size,
kiss my handsome groom again on our wedding day,
or sit in our old sandbox and with my siblings play.
If I had three wishes, I’d travel through the past
to do again my favorite things to make the memories last.
Thank you for the wishes! That’s what I would do.
But I only need the one. You can keep the other two.
Date: October 24, 2018
Three Wishes Premier Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Kevin Shaw
~2nd place
520 Standard Contest, any form
Sponsor: Brian Strand
a 1st place
Copyright © P.S. Awtry | Year Posted 2018
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