Tag: wish!
Wish!
by trogers5 on April 8, 2022
Poetry
![woman sitting on a towel](https://sites.providence.edu/thecowl/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/sites/212/2022/12/woman-g20f413ed0_1280-300x189.png)
Marelle Hipolito ’22
There is wet sand stuck in my wet hair.
There is wet sand stuck in my sweatshirt, and in between my toes,
but I don’t care.
I’m busy looking up at the night sky with you,
rooting for a shooting star.
Not many things have been going our way.
Life has been lonely, and it has not been fair.
Maybe making a wish will turn things around.
There is wet sand stuck in my wet hair.
There is wet sand stuck in my sweatshirt, and in between my toes,
But I don’t care.
I’m looking up at the night sky with you,
Rooting for a shooting—
OH! LOOK! Did you see that?
A beautiful, bright shooting star!
It was quick as a blink, but unmistakable,
A beautiful, bright shooting star!
I turn to tell you to make a wish
But then I remember
that you are not here.
So I turn back around
And I wish
it was not just me, alone,
With wet sand stuck in my wet hair.