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Writer's pictureSherry Healy

Wished: Sherry Healy

Updated: Oct 14, 2023

My thoughts were not unusual,

simple as a child’s,

I wished I had the tulips back. 

Their pedals, white, were innocent…

Momma said, they gave luck, a happy soul,

a future for growing old… 

Especially when bad things are near. 


Together, we planted them,

rows straight and strong,

Mom smiling with sun in her hair. 

Times passed and I stood at barren earth,  

no more pedals of innocence…

one stem standing,

others simply dead,

I should have known.  

We did not water them,

Mom, sick then.  

Nights came… stars…one the biggest in the amber sky,  

I WISHED. 

I wished upon that star. 

Sleep came… sudden wake,

daylight, soft, I held my breath like young girls might. 

Her breath so still,  

so so long. 

Old star, I had wished upon,

you did not take my mom. 

Would my desperate cry soon come true? 

God I wished you’d  take her soon,

she needed her relief. 

On a Saturday morning, 9:46, mom died peacefully in her sleep, no more pain. 

My wish came true. 

I cried, there will be white tulips in Heaven.

When I get there together we will together plant them.


Sherry Healy

2023

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