Let's Have A Talk Poem by Simbarashe Raymond Mudukuti

How do I start?
How do I address you?
How do I learn from you without ridiculing you?
How do I teach you without offending you?
These are all rhetoric questions than run riot as I talk to people
Each person is like a fingerprint,
Unique to its own set of attributes.
With all of you merely sharing all attributes
How then do you expect me to firstly learn each of your attributes?
And secondly remembering the attributes
And lastly keeping them in check
I am kind of lost in this jungle
I am the pathfinder to my own perfect path
I may have said let's have a talk
But it seem more like I'm addressing you
How is this still a conversation when you want some confrontation?
Don't mean to come up all rude
Without getting ahead of myself I would like to excuse myself
By saying it was nice talking to you
Then followed up by a perfectly rehearsed thought of excuse