Our Wishing Well is Full, Try Us Again Tomorrow by Kolby Cruz

Pennies drowning at feet of white carnation.
Wishing well overflowing, dispelling words left unspoken.
Transform superstitious frustration. 

Hopeful beings, unjust demonstration
of vision once desired, they are now forsaken.
Pennies drowning, at feet of white carnation. 

Corroded. Atrocities do lay out in procession.
Of what fate can a cent be mistaken?
Transform superstitious frustration. 

Not only gold but nothing, withstands creation.
Clean hands eroding to aquamarine, suddenly awoken
to pennies drowning at feet of white carnation.

Cradled sorrow of unwillful stagnation,
Since when could innocence’s flower be taken?
Transform superstitious frustration! 

Unraveling heart-shaped tapestry fate induces unwanted salvation,
resuscitation leaves no chance to reawaken.
Pennies drowning at feet of white carnation,
transform superstitious frustration.