Do Wishes Drown In The Well Of No Return?

 

Eyes peer into the wishing well,

a yearning hungers her deep within.

She wishes to see his face.

He holds her heart in the palm of his hand.

Is the wishing well fact or myth?

A silver coin slips from her grasp.

Tears blur her eyes as she watches the blue

water ripple as the coin disappears below the surface.

 

The well seems to echo words of harshness,

ones she longs to retain,

but are forever scared in her ears.

Visions of love reflect off the water.

Times when laughter and togetherness was perfect.

Where did that dimension go?

Is it lost forever?

 

A smile tranfix her face as hope surges within,

looking at his liberal features staring back at her.

The Heavens open up with rain,

shattering his image, it is then she

reliazes it was only and illusion of his face.

As her last coin slips into the well, she wonders is the wishing well fact or myth.

Are do wishes drown in the well of no return?

 

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Poetic Beauty]

I love this idea of looking into the wishing well and his face appearing. This has a somber tone and makes you want him to jump out of the water and hold her.

[R J Askew]

As long as we remain human the wishing well with exist. It does not matter whether it is myth or fact. You hint at a time when romance was perhaps stronger in us. Then the 20th century happened. But as long as we are human romance will exist. A life lived in The Tyranny Of Fact Based Reality wld be dull indeed and not a life many of us wld want to live. But many wld have it otherwise wld say away with silly dreams and all that ... let us feed only on facts and realities. They are poor people with no souls. Maybe humanity will split into two at some point, just as homo sapiens killed of the neanderthals. Maybe some of us will follow the way of reason and reality and create artificial intelligence beyond our own. And those of us who have souls and romance in us will die out. But I think not. And so we need the wishing well to preserve our humanity.

[Tina Kline]

A very emotional story. I think wishing wells are symbols of hope. Holding onto hope is so important but somethings its difficult. I really like this. You did a great job on it.

[Cascara (aka Sprint Goe..]

greatly embedded story!

[Wolf's Dark Song]

The terrible and painful pull of unfulfilled longing. You did a great job on this.

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Very interesting... we can not just sit back and follow guidelines put forth on how we do anything and instead think outside the box in order to progress spiritually and intellectually.

[Leslie Philibert]

What I like about this poem is the way it uses a traditional fairy tale/fantasy theme and evokes from it a lot of new ideas, breathes air into it ...You feel at home with the story, but are surprised with lots of new approaches. Good work

[Raven Starhawk]

How my dear...T_T Simply marvelous. The yearning and realization this piece offers is mind boggling. I cannot pick a favorite line. Simply can't. Each one holds its own sense of wow. I have never read a poem so well...even words fail me as I try to describe how intelligently this was penned. Anyways...if you know me by now you know I can be senile. Still there is no margin for error here and this is a wonderful piece to share. I have to also add it to my faves.

[Coyote Poetry]

Good questions were awoke with this amazing poem. Th wishing well been a myth for many years. I tossed a few coins myself. I did like the ending of this poem. Thank you for the excellent poem.
Coyote