Déjà vu

A tingle of excitement
shudders up my back,
as I set foot upon the property
following a possible future's track.

A funny feeling of repetition
seems to hover over me,
an echo of a place afore entered-
a strange similarity.

I wonder what is causing this reminiscence-
like a sort of déjà vu
this illusion of having already visited
a place you've never been to.

Alas, I fear the answer is plain,
though the clues I don't like to face.
I felt this same hope for a shining future ahead
before I had seen the terrible reality of our human race.

I think back to the skin I shed,
the much younger, oblivious me.
How I miss that sweet young girl
who saw only purity.

After seeing this same dawn of good change
when I was not so learnt,
I followed it's sweet, luring scent
however- I was burnt.

I have seen some cruel, absurd things take place
since that time when I was immature,
but now I know what I'm up against-
could there possibly be a cure?

This is my one chance for a do over,
to have the same experience but make it right.
I think that I now know
what choice I have to make tonight.