everyone wishes
for happiness
love
a good job
a smart child
chocolate
graceful aging
swift end
a mourned passing
remembrance
remembrance
some thread of
legacy
a few decades
of flowers graveside
a saved photo
an inherited eye color
or nose slope
but not
the anger or flawed
profession
the savage remark
the slap
everyone wishes
for the thing which enobles
hides
excludes
the raw excursion
that it really is
this
this
this is
this is not what
everyone wishes
for happiness
love
a good job
a smart child
chocolate
graceful aging
swift end
a mourned passing
remembrance
remembrance
some thread of
legacy
a few decades
of flowers graveside
a saved photo
an inherited eye color
or nose slope
but not
the anger or flawed
profession
the savage remark
the slap
everyone wishes
for the thing which enobles
hides
excludes
the raw excursion
that it really is
this
this
this is
this is not what
everyone wishes
