When you make wishes on a dandelion
you don’t care whether they will come true.
It’s magic enough that with one puff
you can send the wish-seeds flying
and watch the breezes carry them away.
Secretly, of course, you hope the seeds
that bear your wishes will sail as high
as it takes to catch the notice
of the Granter of Wishes, and that,
seeing yours, he will laugh and say,
“Why yes, my child. Just you wait.
Just you wait.” And something
inside you tells you that, one way
or another, all our best wishes
come true.