Symptoms of Impossibility

There are plenty of symptoms
That let us know
When we are not present
To the possibility of life.
When we find ourselves
Assessing our own conversation,
Insisting on being right
While making the other wrong,
Feeling under siege
And misunderstood,
When the world appears a hostile place,
And it seems we are under attack
From every side,
When we want to roll up
In a ball and hide,
And when we operate from fear
With a sense of pending doom,
Then impossibility
Is raising its ugly head.