A Single Wish Poem by Raphael Sackey

What would you wish for, …?
Indeed, what would you wish for, o man,
should you be granted a single wish
which had the power to manifest true?

Most do not ever prepare one in advance,
thus caught unawares, they waste the golden opportunity
on some flimsy, fleeting, ficklety,
till regret lays its heavy hand; them upon.

But yes, still others like Solomon, the wise,
lay prepared like a lion in ambush
waiting to pounce on such a chance
when it rears its head.

Some say, they would wish for an unlimited supply of wishes;
HOW WISE, but greedy.
For then, you would be no different
from the one who wished to be God.

Soon, you will learn,
why great power is always accompanied by great responsibility
and be plunged into the predicament of Bruce almighty;
But O Lazy Man; we wouldn't want all that responsibility, would we?

As for me, I choose not the wisest wish there is.
I just wish, there was something URGENT to live for, in life.
Something so urgent that,
the word ‘urgent, ' would run away when it heard it.

Yes, something that would make death (our inevitable goal) worthwhile.
So that, even a man, on the verge of suicide,
would postpone his plans to go do such a thing.
Yes, now THAT is 'urgent.'

The religious man has something ‘important' to live for.
‘Important' but not ‘urgent.'
He wishes to make it to heaven in the future; ... IN THE FUTURE! !
Just as he wishes to get married or own a business, in the future

He makes plans with no urgency to them
forgetting that man lives in the present and not in the future.
He callously postpones his own salvation
And before he is aware, he is dead.

Now, I also did not find such an urgency in
money, women, knowledge, prestige,
or any such goals that is being pursued among men these days.
And Solomon did not find it in Ecclesiastes either.

THAT is what I wish for.
O, how I would ‘live' for such a thing.
Yet, (if it were that urgent) , would such a thing not be too crucial,
to entrust to the fallible hands of man?

So I guess it is really not worth wishing for either,
we are better off living this slow-paced life.
So then, what would you wish for, …?
Indeed, what would you wish for, o man.