List Poem

My Only Wish

Death approaches, 

knocking on my window. 

It's ghostly shadows reached me, 

but I fear no more. 

The moment is coming, 

as I anticipated, 

since the moment the doctor shook his head, 

and laid my beeping machine to rest. 

Oh, mother don't cry. 

Remember, mother?

The roller coaster in Disneyland? 

I said that was my only wish. 

The speed, 

the screams. 

Remember, mother?

When I retreated from the sight of Spanish and French?

I said that was my only wish. 

The anxious, 

the freedom. 

Remember, mother?

When I dreamed to be a writer?

I said that was my only wish. 

the beauty of English,

The Hope. 

Remember, mother?

When I wished the books will be out of stock?

I said that was my only wish, 

The escape, 

The neglect. 

Remember, mother?

When I pointed at your belly, 

where my brother laid, 

and wanted him gone?

I said that was my only wish, 

My mother, 

my possession. 

And remember, mother? 

When I pointed at the spanish vocabulary, 

the scattered holes, 

homework, 

computer, 

mosquitoes, 

and demanded ? 

I said those were my only wish, 

Too. 

To tell you the truth, mother. 

None of the wishes are true. 

My only wish, 

is to be with you. 

A mother, 

and daughter.