Writer's Block Challenge #26 '...and it came true.'

Writer's Block Challenge #26  

I wish to stand on a sandy beach. Feel the wet sand push between my toes. Hold bread that I tear in pieces, raise it aloft as the seagulls swoop ever closer finding the nerve to take it from my hand. Listen to the rhythmic water’s lapping at the shore. Scour the beach for perfect black mussel backs.

I wished, and it came true.

I wish to lean into a curve at 65 miles an hour feel the wind rush by, arms wide as I close my eyes and fly around the curves. Sunshine beats down to make my scalp hot while the breeze of moving cools me. My hair dances and twirls behind me and I hang on tight as I round yet another curve. I giggle and my smile stretches wide.

I wished, and it came true.

I wish to sit at the table with you, look in your sweet face and talk of memories of our lives, how they intertwine to this day. I pour more coffee as we laugh and giggle like schoolgirls finding the purest sweetest love in one another. Our faces change over the years, the wrinkles come, the hair turns gray, the eyes grow wise, and still we laugh. A lifetime of talking, laughing loving, friendship.

I wished, and it came true.

I wish to sit on a bench surrounded by wild flowers. The sun peeks through the green leaves on the branches hang low and the summers breeze billows about me. A thousand and one butterflies hover near, lighting on my hand, my shoulder, my toes. The comforting silence of being there awakens a new hope in my spirit.

I wished, and it came true.

Somewhere, where wishes grow in fields of dreams, I have a "wishflower" growing. Every so often, a sage ladybird lights on it, throwing my wishes to the wind. Some get scattered and tattered and lost, but every now and then, when I really need it, a wish takes root and grows into reality.

 

"...and it came true."

tjs© December 4, 2007