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Next Time
Poem
Next Time
So this is what wisdom is for.
To know which things
we cannot know
and have no chance
of understanding.
Life throws
its random boulders
and we feel crushed
by their weight.
But we have wisdom
and can learn.
But the next rock has
a different shape
and comes at a speed
that fools
from an angle
we were not expecting.
And over again
we learn more
for the next time.
But the same next time
never comes.
And at the end
we have learnt so much
and know so little.
That’s the thing about wisdom.
Michael R Chapman
~ master of none ~
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