I wish

I wish to know the world

as it should be, now as is

mostly disappointing me

it’s the future world I wish to see

til now’s been narrow

selfish, greedy, unaware

I’d accepted wrongly or rightly

rightly rejected or wrongly demurred 

plasma phase silhouette, it appeared

time machine, always there, now here

visible at the out-breath then

now 20/20 and

in-breath into the future once again

world has improved one breath hence

it’s bigger, better, less intense

with each breath apparent, is the filter

not the world, I couldn’t see

not the world, off kilter, me