The Impossible

At the little age of five, 
As I looked down from the slide, 
"That's impossible," I'd think, 
Before receding from the brink. 

And now I look down that same place, 
And just can't help but think, 
"All it took was time, and down I race...
What other possibilities have been dropped down the sink?" 

Today I look back on what I'd thought, 
The lines I'd wrote, the things I'd done, 
So many things I've said are not
A possibility, now I do for fun.

Oh, I'll never be an author! I'm never meant to write... 
That's what I thought, but now, how untrue, 
I write this, I've wrote a book, and I plan much more tonight! 
Such a simple thing now, that was once "impossible" to do... 

I'm such a mess, a mistake! I'll never amount to anything.
Oh, that's what I said? Well, now... 
So what if I only dance and don't sing? 
I can't do everything, and now I see how.

How to be happy, how to do what can't be done, 
How to show them wrong, and how to have some fun, 
Keep working, keep trying, be who you want to be, 
Keep your eyes open, because that's how you see, 

Don't listen unless it's advice, don't do until you know, 
Hard work and perserverance are what makes things go, 
Luck and talent mean little, unless you really care, 
And impossible only means it takes more time to get there. 

I used to have depression, I misjudged all my selfworth, 
But now I've learned a lesson, I've had a second birth, 
My life has a future, and though there are ups and downs, 
What matters is if you choose to smile or frown. 

Your scars are a map of where you've been, 
The stars are possible to reach, 
And of all the good and bad you've seen, 
There's some of both in each. 

Impossible is possible, 
Your dreams can become more, 
Every sea is crossable, 
And there's a key to every door. 

Now I've learned to dance through life, 
Forget what people think!
Dance and laugh through pain and strife,
And do whatever you want, YOU are the missing link.