A Conversation for Possibility

Who among us
Is privy to the possibilities of life?
I am I say,
And so are you!
Possibility lives in our speaking!

We can envision a future
Free of whatever limitations
May have burdened us in the past,
Real or imagined,
And invent a whole new reality.

Possibility lives in our speaking,
And dies an untimely death
If kept inside our head.
Possibility is a conversation
And nothing more.

One of the most blatant examples
Of a possibility spoken
Creating a supporting reality
Was President John Kennedy’s proclamation
That we will land a person on the moon.

At the time the statement was made,
There was no supporting evidence
That it was technologically feasible,
But the possibility once spoken
Had a power all its own.

That possibility became the parent
Of a multitude
Of technological improvements
That were necessary
The make going to the moon a reality.

The movement to end world hunger
Was the direct result
Of the possibility spoken
That the world can feed itself,
That starvation doesn’t have to be.

Obviously starvation still remains,
But significant progress has been made
Over much of the globe
During the last decade,
And ending hunger remains a possibility.

The possibilities we declare
May not be so lofty
As the examples stated,
But they can still profoundly impact
The quality of our lives.

The world around us
Is not cast in stone or concrete
As it may sometimes appear,
And things don’t have to be
The way they currently are.

It is up to us
To invent the possibilities
That will shape our world
And give us
A world in which we want to live.