Impossible, Until It's Not - Carrie Newcomer

Engineers say bumblebees can’t fly

Their wings are too short and their bodies too wide

But there one goes a-wandering by

It happens all the time

There’s just no way lightning could be born

They’ve measured the clouds and it just can’t form

But it cracks the sky in every thunderstorm

It happens all the time

It’s impossible, impossible

Impossible, until it’s not

There’s a light in the night from stars long gone

A half-formed thought becomes a song

We rise from our grief and go on

It happens all the time

There’s a lake that you cannot see across

A way through the woods that I thought I’d lost

Clearing out everything that it’s time to toss

It happens all the time