A wish to connect-create-continue
If I Had One Wish
If I had one wish,
I would not wish for peace.
Peace is often mistaken
for silence—
and silence has hidden
too many bruises.
I would not wish for wealth,
for wealth has never taught
an empty heart how to feel.
No.
If I had one wish,
I would wish for humanity
to remember itself.
To remember that beneath our names,
our skin,
our beliefs,
our borders,
our pride,
we are all carrying
the same fragile ache.
I would wish for a world
where people no longer look through one another
like ghosts passing in daylight.
A world where every soul
is seen.
Not noticed.
Seen.
The kind of seeing
that reaches beneath the masks,
beneath the practiced smiles,
beneath the armour forged
from years of surviving.
I want a world
where no child learns fear
before wonder.
Where no woman measures danger
with every step she takes.
Where no man is taught
that his tears are a weakness
instead of proof
that he is alive.
I want us to stop starving
for affection
while drowning in attention.
To stop speaking
without understanding.
To stop touching
without feeling.
To stop existing beside each other
and start recognizing
the sacred weight
of another human heart.
Because the truth is...
my wish was born
from witnessing the absence of it.
From watching loneliness
sit in crowded rooms.
From hearing cries for help
disguised as jokes.
From seeing people
beg to be loved
while pretending they needed nothing.
And if my wish came true,
the world would not be perfect.
People would still break.
Grieve.
Fall.
But they would never have to do it
unseen.
That is my wish.
Not for a world connected.
But for a world awakened—
a world that finally realizes
that every stranger carries
an entire universe inside them,
and treats them accordingly.
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