OVERWHELMING
I’ve been told that I am overwhelming
I’m not quite sure what that means
And yet I do
I see the possible
and try to make it so
Not believing obstacles
Seeing long paths with handles
and gaps that shrink if
I just move fast enough
I am holding the hand of my grandmother
as we walk in spots where warmth
has melted the ice
We can go, I tell her
Step here
I am climbing all the way to the top
of the Great Wall
because it is there
Stopping is not going at all
I am fixing and arranging
planning and finding ways
to make things work
Even when no one asks me to
Is that overwhelming
Just too much at times
or is it
catching sun spills
flight untethered
Dropping ways along a path
full of other overwhelming souls
I have been this way all my life
The little girl
with a determined face
Always looking forward and up
Forward and up
Even in my mother’s womb
Need I not be overwhelming
Do I contain what I do
and who I am
into regular beats and
tempered hands beneath me
To me
That is overwhelming
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