Someone New

I want to try something new
Where I tell everything to you
So you know where I'm going
Even when I'm lost

I want you to see
Where I end up at the end
As I try to navigate my life
Of unpaved roads

I want someone to wonder
How it is that I am here
When you look back at the past
All going nowhere

I want help to understand
Why my map's in Chinese
And my brain cannot translate
The messages

I want to succeed
To start each new day
With my head right side up
And my feet on the ground

I want to know
All the things that I don't
And I hope you have patience
For me

I want to try something new
Where I find someone true
Who can teach me 
To learn Chinese
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written 2013