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# Yes You Can
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/yes-you-can/
- Published: 2024-07-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Perfection hovers, subtly out of reach, adjacent to unmet, as yet, potential, the one that mom evoked in every speech, in tones both resolute and reverential: Remember, you can do it, yes you can! If only moms could b...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Perfection hovers, subtly out of reach,  
adjacent to unmet, as yet, potential,  
the one that mom evoked in every speech,  
in tones both resolute and reverential:  
Remember, you can do it, yes you can!  
If only moms could bottle that belief,  
and you could take a sip of it, and then,  
transformed into the best of you, as if  
mere words could mold, infuse that kind of power.  
Life soon betrays the mantra, a false hope.  
You will not save a princess from her tower,  
nor do you have the courage to elope  
and live the life she told you that you should.  
If mom is always right, it's Hollywood.