Of Ambition and Experience

Before us the unknown waits

Behind us the bygone rests

Seamless transition,

Experience, ambition

Battles in synchronized breadth

Experience tempers brash schemes

Ambition fuels dreams and such

Juxtaposed spiral

We inhale and exhale

Ever beneath present-touch

See how the Now kindles then

Courtship of merest moments

As Unknowns unfold

What Bygones will hold

Of ambition to experience

© Janet Martin

My sister and I dropped our daughters off at their schools today after a week-end at home for Thanksgiving. To me it felt like Old Experience hugging Young Ambition as we said our good-byes.

Old Experience has no more knowledge of The Unknown than Young Ambition so,

Old Experience gets down on knees and prays God to guide and direct Young Ambition and Old Experience.