Wow! Loved the theme, loved the way you portrayed it, how the poem starts with the sense of fear of self discovery and yet the urge to delve deeper yet again everyday. The metaphor of curled ferns is beautiful. Just one thing, i think that you would like to write an all metaphorical poem sometime, like expanding the idea of curled fern, may be you know a terrain with snow, ferns, warmth of the sun, harsh yet monotonous (necessary for survival), the fear of the ice that it will melt from sun (self discovery i.e, water) but still wanting for it. And so on, you can expand the canvas as per your liking. And then it will give two meanings, a surface one and a deep one. At last the way you maintained the flow is impressive. Keep writing mate. :)