Recognition

Recognition:

What if today holds the answers
to the prayers of ten years past-
and I can’t even recognize it?

I begged for peace,
and then called it boredom.

I prayed for strength,
and cursed the weight that built it.

I asked for family,
and ran from the mirror it held up to me.

Maybe the divine never said no-
only not as I expected.

Was I ever praying for what I truly wanted,
or just for who I hoped I’d be?

The future came quietly,
slipped into my hands,
and I mistook it for ordinary.

What if today holds the answers
to the prayers of ten years past-
and now I recognize it?