The world needs me

Or so I am told

I need only to connect

With my community

I hear my community

Scurrying around in the attic

The squirrels, mice, bats

Battering around in the upper reaches

Where I dare not open the door

And explore

The world

Calling its needs to me

In its native tongue

A tongue not taught

Tempting an embrace

Trembling,

I dare not.