In this world, what I consider possible
is more important than I may fathom -
it is the lie of impossibility
that has kept me from claiming,
in every place I've missed it,
my dominion

So let me broaden the tent of my belief
so there is room for happiness,
not just for me - rather, for everyone -
Let them be thrilled and awestruck
by the fact of their own being

Not under some as yet unmet conditions,
Not the false possible conveyed by some "if only",
but the true possible of This is what we're here for
and this is how we live, and this is what we are.

©Wendy Mulhern
April 29, 2020