The Tahiti Button

You know
that moment
when
you know
you can push
the button and
buy the ticket to
Tahiti?

Even though
you’ve believed
you couldn’t or
shouldn’t
a thousand times
before?

And then you
push it?

You know
that voice
that says
you’ve fallen
short,
you’re not
who you’d hoped
to be
by now?

The voice
you’ve heard
a thousand times
before?

And there’s proof,
right?
That towering
pile of
“coulds” and “shoulds,”
but you
don’t or won’t?

I’m starting to
wonder
what those
voices are
hiding.

I’m starting to
wonder
if there’s a
“do” and “will”
button
and

pushing it
is like
pushing the
Tahiti Button.

(Photo by Kristopher Roller, UnSplash)