The Definition of Taste:
Verb: perceive or experience the flavor of.
Noun: the sensation of flavor perceived in the mouth and throat on contact with a substance.
The Definition of Wish:
Verb: feel or express a strong desire or hope for something that is not easily attainable; want something that cannot or probably will not happen.
Noun: a desire or hope for something to happen.
- I taste the salt descending on my face, frequently like raindrops from the steps I sit on by my room
- I wish she didn’t cause so much agony
- I taste the breath of yelling in the atmosphere
- I wish she didn’t pretend to care
- I taste the words I spit out with rage
- I wish she would forgive me, but I know she never will
- I wish she would have said she loves me more often but those words never escaped her lips
- I taste the constant cry for affection
- I wish she would have fought for me but she didn’t even try
- I taste the breeze, running through the dark alleys, mindlessly.
- I taste the urge to run away again from home
- I taste the smeared vaseline, marinated on my lips
- I taste the numbness on my arms…my face..my feet from
- I taste my cold swollen fingertips after throwing snowballs desperately at the window of my old living room
- I wish she could be a better person; I hope she will change
- I taste her rejection that never subsides
- I wish she didn’t think I betrayed her, it was never my intention
- I wish she would have expressed her love more sincerely
- I wish she would have picked up the phone more often
- I taste the unwanted kisses on my bare skin
- I wish she would have shown me her true colors sooner
- I wish she would realize that she’s made a mistake
- I taste the cool night of October when I was forced out my own home
- I taste the screams at the very surface of my throat
- I wish she wouldn’t keep burdening me
- I wish she would have seen me graduate, so I could have witness her smile with pride
- I taste her words of shame, “you are no longer my daughter”
- I wish she would have tried to fill in all those years she wasn’t present in my life
- I taste the lingering presence of doubt, the uncertainty of being loved
- I wish my mother would come back before it’s too late
