Blue Skies

 "Noticing the days hurrying by"

(With thanks to Irving Berlin... and the 4 musketeers)

I want a new life, a new house, a new world,
a new dream, a new existence.

I want a puppy, electronics and mechanical things that actually work,
and a reality that doesn’t need repair.

I want friends that answer when I call.

I want to smile and to laugh.

I want pain I can live with instead of abiding by its rules.

I want a vacation from worry, a holiday from stress,
free time without demands.

I want a new mattress and comfortable pillows.

I want fresh air, time to rove and nowhere to be.

I want authors and musicians I love to never die,
at least not until after I have.

I want concerts and museums, theatres and galleries.

I want sight-seeing in cities and walking on seashores.

I want health and happiness, and love and joy;

I want “blue skies and palomino ponies”.

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 11 April 2017