When history still hasn’t happened

wait for it: remember
the past can’t unfold
without a commitment
a curiosity to stimulate
the stone coming back
down the hill, with a need
to re-mount the apex
it shall be repeated
but only when the pattern
has been recognized
described in a comprehensible
series of analogies
believable enough
to get the people
rowing toward the same
destination as the last
broken compass