Open Eyed Wonder

Maybe the universe
Hasn’t changed,
But my perspective
Of it has.
The possibilities
I see for myself
And the world
Around me
Didn’t exist
A short time ago.
It wasn’t that I
Was discontented
With my lot in life,
Far from it,
I was enjoying myself,
Oblivious
To what could be.
Slowly, but surely,
I woke up to
An alternate reality
I could not even
Have imagined
Previously,
But once the door
Was opened,
It could not be
Closed again.
I now wake up
Every morning excited,
In wonderment
Of how such a world
Could have escaped
My notice before.
Now that my eyes
Have opened,
Going back to
The way it was
Is no longer possible.