Sunday, December 4, 2011

True Mastery

I see life more like an artisan skill you gain
and the only way to get better is through living.
We all start off as novices working to prove ourselves,
and work our way into apprentices.
We watch and learn from every teacher we have,
and gain knowledge from others failures and our own successes.
One day we'll leave home and become journeymen,
on our own to show the world what we have for them.
We will learn from our own failures and hear stories of others successes,
and become jealous because we want more of our own.
And as we grow we will soon become experts,
we will know how to handle they everyday routine.
But when the exotic hits us like a ton of bricks,
our best solution is to just fight our way through,
because we learned to do that a long time ago.
And as life gets closer we become professionals,
we are used to the mundane and exciting in life,
we can take on all that life throws at us,
and still come out alive.
However we will not escape
our inevitable fate in life,
and it will continue to grow closer.
And life is the only trait that we can never master,
and you will die trying.