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.