This: This! Mark the day.
Mark the hour.
This is the time
you failed to do the impossible.
It was inevitable
but unfortunate, too.

You could have done something special
if you were something inconceivably different
but you weren’t, unsurprisingly,
because you’re human
hampered by those abilities
and fallacies
and you did what you were able to
and nothing more was possible.

You did everything right
and nothing wrong
and nothing more was expected of you.

You failed to do the impossible,
I said.
You couldn’t have done any better
or different
or anything else.
It’s all right.
This is what happened.
This
is what was done.