I Wish

I Wish I Could
I Wish I Did
I Wish I Had
I Wish I Didn't
I Wish I Knew
But sometimes people don't
Sometimes it's too late
Or too soon
There aren't unlimited opportunities in life
And then I'm standing on the corner of 59th st waiting for someone
And a blind man nearly walks into me
Asks if I know where such and such a store is
He was very close
I had to guide him because even by telling him how close
He didn't know
He wanted too
He thought he could handle it
But he couldn't see
And it was a perfect spring day
The kind you wait all winter for
The kind you stay in New York City for
And he will never see that
But he gave me something
A stranger
A reminder of what's important