This poem expresses ideal acceptance of limitations. The word “should” in the first line refers to the fantasy land where emotions are non-existent and logic could guide the individual suddenly struck by barriers to what he could do before his crippling accident. When I wrote this, with a relatively new disability, I was expressing my empathetic frustration with people who ‘just don’t get it.’ Thus, the second and third stanzas are more realistic. The poem concludes with the idea that we with disabilities are the bosses over our disabilities and must not let them consume us.