Questions

I want to ask you why you climb over the fence instead of walking through the gap someone made in the wire for everyone to use. I am curious, but I don't know you. We've never spoken a word to one another, only exchanged a smile as we pass.

I want you to ask why I avoid climbing the fence. I want to tell you that I avoid it, because once I'm halfway through doing so, once I'm at the top and I have one leg over, straddling the top... I want to tell you that it makes me feel like I have one foot in the future, and one in the past. I have a moment at the top where I have to pause and remind my leg how to move, how to swing over the fence. I have to remember that I can let go of the past and swing into the future.

I'm not sure why, but I need you to know this.