Soliloquy

Through a frown upon your face
and a half-twisted smile
you call out my name

I shrug, quiver and stir from
the self-imposed reticence I had climbed into
awakening with the gentle thud of the all-knowing
and the all-encompassing
by comprehending close to nothing about
the kind of predicament that awaits us today

Frightened of arousing the component that slumbers on
deeply within the confines of the cage we call heart
we walk around the perimeters but refuse to step inside
but we are both young
and we have both been blessed with naivete
so we jump into the cauldron with alarming haste

Who’s to remind us of the mistakes of yesterday
and the ramifications of the
same circles we find ourselves travelling in?