Maya Angelou

Senses of Insecurity

Senses of Insecurity - meaning Summary

Uncertain Love as Certainty

The speaker describes a destabilizing love that blurs reality and dream. Everything else feels uncertain, but the beloved becomes the only dependable future. Physical contact and sensual details deepen the speaker27s surrender, while awareness of risk—"dared the cost"—suggests conscious acceptance of vulnerability. The poem centers on how intimacy can both anchor and disorient, making personal feeling the sole prediction amid broader insecurity.

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I couldn't tell fact from fiction or if my dream was true, The only sure prediction in this whole world was you. I'd touched your features inchly, heard love and dared the cost. The scented spiel reeled me unreal and found my senses lost.

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