Poem: Shift

Shift

Change to think of it

in other terms,

not as it seems now

but as it should seem

when viewed again

from the perspective

of the desired outcome,

not that it is simple

to even recognize

the true choice

for how it would be

from that person

who is the same

as the one considering it,

the same one as is here,

but not the same

in time, in the version

of an identity, to see

instead the way it is

to look back from who

that will have to be,

to imagine the way it is

to see these problems

as they are now,

to imagine seeing them,

recalling all of that

with the mind

that is the same

but for the lessons learned

in moving to the place

where it has changed,

where it can be seen

from another side.