On Learning to Learn

 Do you sometimes wish you could make your children understand what as yet, they simply cannot?!

...until we remember our own journey of discovery and 'aha'.

We learn to learn, and so will they

For Father Time, patient and true

Without a word will have his say

For his ways do not change; we do

…and as we pass the Baton, we

See what our predecessors knew

Then with kinder humility

We learn to learn as they did too

 

…how running, makes us fall behind

But slowing, we gain ground…so strange  

As Father Time, patient and kind

Teaches how some things never change

...that in life’s dwindling wake-work-sleep

It kindles a holier reach

For Something that no one can keep

And only Father Time can teach

© Janet Martin