MADE IT

MADE IT

thank God
you made it

thank God
you are here

have circumvented
every obstacle, every
inconvenience,
every scattered booby-trap,
every coldly calculated
anti-personnel mine
they laid with
careful, diabolical precision
every step of the way
along your
   most likely path

and me so bloodsoaked
imaging this scenario and
having
   to bring it into existence

collapse possibilities
into realities

alternate
       versions

no less
real

things we hope, think, pray,
believe might
be final

in this, as in all things,
we might only dream.