Diagnosis

She says she would not want to diagnose people.  I tell her people are not their diagnosis, anyway. She is not convinced.  

I tell her

A diagnosis

Is only the beginning of things,

A place to start,

Certainly not

The place to end.

There is so much road to travel

So much to find and appreciate.

A diagnosis

Identifies a bump in that road

So we can then

Plow through it

Leap over it

Sidle around it.

A diagnosis

Is not the place

To stop.

A diagnosis

Is the place                                            

To begin again.