I WISH
What do I wish I hadn’t seen?
Clean diamonds of your eyes, those clean
pretenders, liars – now open wide,
now narrow, filled with scorn and pride.
What do I wish I hadn’t heard?
Ingratiating voice – a bird
of pray ensnaring with its song,
now sweet and faint, now fierce and strong.
What do I wish I hadn’t known?
The ghost I thought to be my own.
I wish I’d never never had
a wish to be for you so mad.