If you know you know,
that moment you realise you were doing,
something a short while ago,
now you have finished another task,
so you can return to the one you forgot.
If you know you know,
the anguish of the things you said and did,
how that other must hate you and
tight now be demanding your head,
but they don’t remember.
If you know you know,
I am busy engaged, in a task full flow,
the time for the appointment,
is almost on us or past,
how did I forget? Drat and blast.
I walk into a room and I know,
the emotional currents and eddies,
the tension or lust, I must control,
steer to the calm water before it could blow.
If you know, you know.