Once I knew someone.
They understood. The world, life, love. Everything flowed.
Teach me. I said. I search, drift, haunted.
They replied. I don’t understand. I don’t know.
Prove myself, I thought.
I worked. Every day, I worked. I achieved. I moved. I shook. I conquered. I proved.
I returned. I asked. Teach me.
I don’t understand.
I pleaded. Teach me! You understand. Teach me. I begged.
I don’t know.
Teach me!
I screamed. I smashed. I destroyed.
I cried, alone.
I slept. forever.
I dreamed something. overthere. behind. one side. the other. always there. beyond. i followed. I walked. I ran.
it danced. drifted. jumped. twirled.
I chased. i lept. dove. flew! so close!
I stopped. someone grabbed me.
pleading.
teach me.