Wishing wishes

By: Yeo WenBin


When a shooting star streaks past,
will you say you want infinite wishes in a hush?

What if all your wishes came true one day,
will you scream today.

What if you continued wishing,
and yet the wishes kept materializing.

Would you want more?
Money,Women, Eternal Life, so much power till it starts to bore?

The world will change
as your wishes are arranged.

Will you still be content?
or left wanting for more?

Alas, human desire is a sin,
inserted deep into your heart like a pin.

Freedom will belong to you,
as your wishes will never run few.

You will control the very aspect of reality,
of time, space, wormholes and immortality.

The sun will rise from the west,
and the moon from the east.

When the time comes for the world to be liberated,
will you fight your desire, or be always hated?

You will try to ask your conscience,
and yet you would find it was only a fiction of the mind.

Try convincing yourself your wishes are made for happiness,
only to find it corrupted by greed and power-hungriness.

When a shooting star streaks past again,
through the life-less plants and barren land.

What will you wish now?
Something even more dull?

So try to be careful,
for you never know.

When there's magic in the air,
while you are wishing wishes.