Make a Wish
Delicate white parachutes reveal themselves once more.
A prelude to little yellow suns covering earth’s floor.
Tiny seeds of potential life, puffs of cloud on a stem,
Waiting for a child to pluck and blow a secret to them.
Once, we found so much joy and wonder blowing on this seed.
As years passed, it somehow morphed into a mustard-stained weed.
These puffs of promise and a thousand silent requests,
Became irritations to be ripped out, poisoned in utter detest.
A foolish belief in the possibility of a wish to be granted,
Or an invasion of all the green that is planted?
I picked one from the soil and knew just what to do.
Closing my eyes, I took a deep breath, and blew.
Kelly Okoniewski is a poet and a writer. Her work has appeared in WestWard Quarterly, Sacred Journey, Sparks of Calliope, Farmer-ish, The Journal of Undiscovered Poets, Sailors Review, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Spare Parts, Rebellion LIT, and Flash Fiction Magazine. In 2023, she won the Pennsylvania Poetry Society’s Who’s News in Prize Poems Award. Kelly lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and son.
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