Spell in Soap
Wrote names in soap on the bathroom tiled wall
and said a prayer for each one
Happiness, health, abundance in careful cursive,
written into each curve
How much love, desire-
what vertebrae to break, indignity to swallow,
what spells to cast-
for a guarantee of their contentment
Instead, I kiss my watery hand, wipe away the letters,
hoping that as I let each name go,
there will be room now for the lives we all dreamed of
and said a prayer for each one
Happiness, health, abundance in careful cursive,
written into each curve
How much love, desire-
what vertebrae to break, indignity to swallow,
what spells to cast-
for a guarantee of their contentment
Instead, I kiss my watery hand, wipe away the letters,
hoping that as I let each name go,
there will be room now for the lives we all dreamed of
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