I feel like a wishing well <br />Deep and nearly empty <br />I'm taking up buckets of water <br />To drown myself in self pity <br />I want to kill happiness <br />I want to pop a child's balloon <br />And make him dropp his ice cream cone <br />I want to be the unsettled woman's cigarette <br />That leads to her lung cancer <br />I want to pour myself a bowl of happiness <br />Pour in milk <br />Let it sit <br />And throw it away <br />I want to be a girl's heartbreak <br />I want to lean in for a kiss <br />Pull away <br />And laugh <br />I want to throw buckets of blue and black paint <br />On every red and yellow painting ever <br />I want to apologize to every artist <br />And cross my fingers <br />I want to prepare a steak <br />And leave it a foot from the lions cage <br />Because the bucket in my wishing well <br />Has stopped half way <br />I'm choked up and bitter <br />Like the bucket I watch hang midway <br />And the water that sat in the well for so long <br /> <br />Or maybe I want to be loved <br />And give love <br />And plant a garden of sunflowers <br />Just to lay in them and say <br />'I never want the bucket to come up' <br />So I cut the rope and watch the bucket fall <br /> <br />I'm throwing chance like dice <br />And as I watch the dice roll <br />I see the face yelling 'Love! ' <br />And hoping<br /><br />Joshua Tracy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/rewind-and-play-rewind-and-play/
