Here is Where the World Begins

-- Inspired by a line from "Further Adventures in the Restless Universe" by Dawn Raffel --

The world begins here
When you first ask if what you have is
Better than what others have where
You have never traveled, past the
Places you consider to be your world
Here is the world begins

But what else begins
You look around here
Taking in your new world
Wondering if this is
The place you meant to go to, the
Right kind of where

But is this where
Happiness begins?
Is this really the
Final stop, the Here
You keep wondering is
This the dreamed-of world?

Is this the where-she-wound-up world?
Could this be where
She settled and is
This where new-her begins
Is it here
You wonder as you scan the

Foreign rolling hills and the
Strange sunsets that make up this world
You say, this can't be here
This can't be where
She thought success begins
You don't know what here is

But it certainly is
Not the
Beginning of begins
Or of any kind of world
And it can't be where
You can find her here

Is this really a better world?
The everlasting where
Is it true a new you begins here?