Large Fierce Mammal

First published on October 9, 2017

Lessons

By LFM

To raise a child is one of Nature’s fundamental things,
For offspring must be taught to thrive amid the hurts and stings.
The world abounds with things that rend the heart, that bruise, and pierce,
And bitter Truths, like he may lose, however True and Fierce.

Some curses will be comely while some blessings be disguised.
Some enemies you’ll have to make, some need be recognized.
The smoothest, brightest path’s not always where your feet should walk.
The sharpest blade has met the stone ere cuts the thorny stalk.

The wise are called to Learn and Teach, and do in equal measure.
Seek thee not those ones who’d teach, but solely for their pleasure.
And through your life you’ll find a mentor’s tied to time and place,
As when you’d learn to shoot a gun, or tie a proper lace.

There’s time to sit in quiet, and there’s time to stand and fight.
There’s time to be the darkness, and a time to be the light.
The greatest skills are learned when “simple” things elude your ken,
And down is but the trail head on the path to up again.