I’ve just been contemplating how much I used to know,

How everything I understood, I understood as everything,

How sharp the wire around my borders,

How high the walls around my mind,

And nothing could get in that didn’t find its twin within.

I woke in trembling fear last night at all there was I’d never know,

And cried in pain upon my pillow, knowing I must still advance,

Advance into the darkened reaches, haunting memories of youth,

When all I knew was all there was and all there was I knew as truth.

Still terrified I take a step, for what I fear much more than growing

Is standing still or going back, and living life, but never knowing.