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What I Want

July 19, 2014
By ash57999 SILVER, Pewaukee, Wisconsin
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Favorite Quote:
"A room without books is like a body without a soul" -Marcus Tullius Cicero

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"Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" -Mary Oliver

I want to travel the world
and expand my mind beyond this small box
I want to drink my first glass of wine
maybe it will be my last, maybe it won't
I want to spend countless sleepless nights
with my best friends laughing until we cry
I want to spend more than I can afford
and learn to stretch a dollar
I want to get my heart broken
to teach me that the world can be ugly
I want to lose it all
to learn that life isn't fair
but most of all
I want to learn to love where I come from
where I am
and
where i'm going

© Courtney R., Great Falls, VA

The author's comments:
My piece is inspired by the question posed by Mary Oliver, which is featured at the top of this poem.
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