poem meme

[ladymordecai]

When you see this, post your favorite poem in your journal.

This isn't my favorite poem--the person I got this meme from posted that, ironically!--but I do kinda love it.

WISHES
Georgia Douglas Johnson

I'm tired of pacing the petty round of the ring of the thing I
  know--
I want to stand on the daylight's edge and see where the sunsets
  go.

I want to sail on a swallow's tail and peep through the sky's blue
  glass.
I want to see if the dreams in me shall perish or come to pass.

I want to look through the moon's pale crook and gaze on the
  moon-man's face.
I want to keep all the tears I weep and sail to some unknown
  place.