If Wishes Were Airplanes

- If Wishes Were Airplanes-
by Keaton Foster


From this heart
From this mind
Up there
Beyond those clouds
Down here
In the space between
High above sight
An unobtainable distance
Where
I presently cannot go
But where
Most of who I am resides
If wishes were airplanes
Soaring off into the blue
Seeking some truth
Maybe finding us again
In time
Becoming part of our skin
An increment of our
At times infernal existence
Making things better
If even only for a moment
I’d be willing to embrace that
Such wishes
Time honored things
Call them prayers
Sacred requests
Between God and I
From these lips
To his ears
Seeking forgiveness
With regards to both sides
I have long suffered
But recently I have also
Begun to encompass
The idea that to be saved
One must first be lost
To be immortal we must
First come to know
What it means to be
Helpless and frail
Weakened by our lives
Taken to the edge
And made to see
What lives down there
In the swirling nothingness
Of a life lived in regret
If wishes were airplanes
I know
That they’d soar
Beyond all reason
And beyond
All that makes us human
To a place where and when
They could never be touched
Harmed
Dismantled in any way
Left as pure as when
They were conveyed
As innocent as they seem
From this heart
From this mind
Up there
Beyond those clouds
Down here
In the space between
High above sight
An unobtainable distance
Where
I presently cannot go
But where
Most of who I am resides
If Wishes Were Airplanes
They’d soar
Further than forever more
High above all of our pain
And at times
Our troublesome ways
To a place not touched
Unmolested by interaction
Upward to a sacred place
Within a universal space
Of shared inhabitance
Where as one we can be
Closer to God
One and another
And ourselves…




If Wishes Were Airplanes
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2014.
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