2009: Wishing you and your family & friends many blessings for this winter holiday!

This is my all-time favorite question. But you know what? I'd have a heck of a time deciding which one power I should have! At any given time, it could reduce to the following superhuman abilities:

-doctor/healer (physical & spiritual): I love helping and guiding people in their lives. I want them to find peace and happiness in the midst of the sickness, pain, and suffering. I want to touch them and see them heal, especially cancer patients!

-fortune teller/oracle/prophet: I want to tell others of their fortune (or misfortune). Truth is important. I want to make people see what is good and what is bad and give them a second chance in life.

-time traveling: I would absolutely love to see how things happen in the beginning of time. I want to see how dinosaurs existed, how Jesus lived, whether if there was a city of Atlantis, the progression of Pangaea over centuries, how languages evolved to what they are known today... I want to see the why and how of things happening in history. I also want to see the future!

-flight: The essence of mankind's heart. To find freedom, to escape, to see the world beyond what is known.

-teleportation: To teleport objects, to self-teleport. Never have to lift a finger or a muscle, but of course, you would still be eating a lot because of the metabolism rate is much higher than a regular human being.

-self-cloning: Ah, there were days when I wish I could be in three places at once. It would make things much easier--multi-tasking...

-telepathy/mind reading: People can be really dishonest sometimes or have really bad intentions to a point where they hurt others. Reading their minds would help a lot. I would be fascinated to see the dreams, memories, and other stored information of different kinds of people.

Loved ones, keys, earrings, passwords--
all lost, some retrievable, some replaceable,
a wild forest of ghosts, 35 rose petals on a dirt trail,
bones of the past.

If I could go back,
I would instead choose to go forward.

If I could have visions
to see what is around that bend,
that end of the rainbow
where a pot of gold
holds hope, wishes granted,
prayers and philosophical questions answered,
humanity saved,
tears no longer there...

I won't rewind time.
It gets old pretty fast,
some things are good sitting and collecting
mildew and dust.
I don't want history repeated
reopening wounds.
There are not enough bandages
to seal the pain.

If I could travel to the future
to find something new,
give me a machine so that I could sort,
make an assembly line of things
that can come true.