BY GLORIA O’KOYE
In a world
Where imagination can coexist with reality
Breaking rules
Living in no fear
Because we’re in charge of
What we want to change
From the vines of insecurities
I wish that poverty were a nightmare
Where we can wake up
Or change course
By the snap of our fingers
I wish that peace would be at our command
Breaking through chokeholds
Of power and greed
With words like
Enough of this insolence
I wish
We can all hold space for conversations
No matter the difference of opinions
Silencing one
Doesn’t solve anything
Just oppressed
Becoming oppressors
When roles switch
I wish
There’ll be places of no judgement
No visible judgements
No hidden judgements
No passive aggressive judgements
Just a judgement free zone
For the sake of unique walks
No one should be put down
For how their paths reaches in
What their future has in store
I wish
For the inhabitants of this planet
Move in unity
Like fire ants facing floods
They form a raft
Surfing on the steady or wild stream
I wish for mutualism
For all living things
Respecting and fulfilling each other wishes
I wish
A wish
Can be more than unanswered cries
That whoever or whatever out there
In the vast unknown,
Will answer
Other than silent listening
I wish
I wish
I wish there more to this
Than just empty blissful wishing
