"the bluebird's call"

It took me a decade and six years

to finally figure out the way

the bluebird’s call connects to the way

I smile in the dark;

one year later

and I’m on my way-

they do not believe that I can do it,

but they never speak of the reason why;

it is an expectation,

not a reality,

never defined,

always ambiguous,

but the hindrances are real, objective, tangible

and that scares me.