University Thoughts – A Compass that Goes Nowhere

I want to see the world but I am not truly ready to try
Far too cautious to let my toe dip the water
Because the unknown is too cold and deep.
And, I never learnt how to swim.
Yet I still long to see something new
Let my eyes see something beyond the end of my nose.
I want to be 80 telling stories of my adventures
But I’m too preoccupied with saying that
So I never actually go on them.
Longing to be walking somewhere else,
But too stuck in my shell to poke my head out
And let the current take me somewhere new.
So I stay still.
Lying to myself that I’ll ever move.