Learning the Hard Way

As deep a slice can go

Without nicking the bone

Gestating old emotions

I thought I had outgrown

So comical the turn

I’ve naught to do but laugh

Always trudging forth

On so elliptical a path

I know not who I am

I know not what I know

A pattern deeply rutted

So upward I must go

Can’t say I haven’t learned

The message all too clear

Now it’s time to ascertain

If I’m really here