It Wasn't Real To Me Until.....

It wasn't real to me until right now. I knew it in my head but not really in my heart, I didn't feel it.
I saw it in people's faces as we all waited to vote, I saw it in the streets as the results were being called, I heard it in the streets through honks, fireworks, screams, cheers and the traces of tears in my father's eyes. I saw it on the faces of those in the crowds waiting for the concession and victory speeches, respectively. IT had been done, that which was feared, dreamed of and hoped for, that which was thought impossible, incredible, it had been done. HE BECAME THE ONE, the great hope, our last great hope, the signifier of changes to come. The here and now is forever changed and the future is different, brighter, better, different, again. It became real to me 22 days before it becomes official. Now I realize that I am/have been holding my breath until it all becomes official, real. Seeing is believing. It wasn't real until Esquire almost made me cry over lunch.