You tell yourself it will do no good
To acknowledge the child who floated in the beads of the ultrasound or the mantras of the obstetrical attending—
It is for her best not to know
Or the terrible error in calculating
The time it takes to unpack and repack a Pilot
A truck, an Accord, a house, a life
You tell yourself
It would have happened by now
The Icarus Moment
The violent fall
When an ordinary man walks into light eternal
Only to become it
We will all be changed
Some moments last for all
Eternity


