A Lifetime to Learn

Life is a struggle,

negotiating daily with the

pains, aches and assaults

to our senses.

Wrestling with the

unknown parts of ourselves,

the known, and the matter

in between.

Teetering between madness

and joy, we pick our battles,

sometimes we win,

sometimes we lose.

There are depths to our minds

that when imagined, are dark

unending chasms to infinity,

of which nothing can escape.

There are soaring heights to

our minds, swooping effortlessly

over bright golden fields of ceaseless

beauty and majesty.

There’s the middle; gray, misty,

rocky, filled with perils and ghosts

of our shame and embarrassments,

and of our potential triumphs.

Navigating this complex human vessel

is hazardous, daunting and damaging,

it’s scary, balanced between being prey

or being the hunter.

Billions of minor choices a millisecond

course through the electrochemical

engine of our brains, fueling desires or

fears, passions and pleasures.

Life, in and out of our control, to tame it

and to be tamed by it, to shake your fist at

it in defiance or accept it in peaceful

complacency.

Life is a struggle,

to be uneasy about it

is normal.

That’s life.

And it takes a lifetime

to learn.