It Couldn't Be Done

 

Humankind rests on the shoulders of “it couldn’t be done”

And yet, we’ve proved that thought wrong with every turn around the sun

Early on our ancestors learned to make fire and created the wheel

Improved their lives, learned to make weapons and forge steel.

Slaves wanted to be free, but they were property

They never had the opportunity

Until the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War, 

They were slaves no longer, but there was more conflict in store.

The fight wasn’t over, in fact it was far from done,

Men like Malcolm X and MLK fought for everyone

With peaceful protests, sit ins, and chants of “We shall overcome”

Segregation gave way to equality, all because “it couldn’t be done.”

Women were expected to stay at home to be a baby making machine

Serve their husbands, make sure to keep everything clean,

But, then they fought for a right to vote and their equality,

Women can be anything they want...even president...well, maybe not yet, but it will be.

It couldn’t be done, you see that ocean, it’s too big to cross

Don’t worry, I got this, I’m a boss.

It couldn’t be done, you see that mountain, it’s too high to climb

Why must we continue to doubt, we conquer every time.

We’ve landed a man on the moon, won the race

It couldn’t be done, we spent an entire year in space

We sent a rocket to Pluto and landed a rover on Mars

Someone said “it couldn’t be done,” so we reached for the stars.

We’ve created technology to easily connect point A and B

We can drive and ride and fly over the sea

We can research from anywhere about anything 

Because someone had the foresight to create that technology

So, the moral of my story, the point, the lesson to all of this

Remember that from now until the apocalypse

When someone tells you “it couldn’t be done” all along

Thousands of years of history prove that all wrong.

Rachael Collins