If You Don’t Throw Your Line in the Water, You Definitely Won’t Catch a Fish

influenced by my human design

I have been subscribing to the idea

that I must be patient and wait for an invitation

from those whom I wish to know

and that if I were to ask out of interest first

the mechanisms of defined and undefined centers

and channels will conspire to prevent connection

or rather the centers and channels will not conspire

to create connection but

this morning in the shower

an epiphany washed over me that was so obvious

I don’t know why I hadn’t realized it before

I had been reluctant to feign any interest

out of this dogmatic belief in that one human

design tenet for so long that I was probably starving

but then idea came to me

if I don’t throw my line in the water

how is a damn fish supposed to know

I even exist outside the surface of the water

while I stand there waiting on the muddy banks

of the river like miser of love