For School-of-Life Scholars....

While students in Canada enjoy a week of March break students of life forge on

...because there is no 'March Break' in the school of Life😁

(Markers of graduates from centuries past)

Beneath the iron tutelage

Of stars that dim at dawn

Each day is like a fresh, white page

Time’s students write upon

...where he is no respecter of

Scholars of days and years

And no one graduates, my love

Until time disappears

For there is always something More

To learn and learn anew

Regardless of zillions before

We have to learn it too

Father Time coaches human race

In ways beyond our guess

Where roads that teach patience and grace

Help us learn happiness

…and sometimes he will kick us hard

To tame habits uncouth

His subjects often battle-scarred

While gaining Wisdom’s Truth

For in time’s class of constant change

Where some things never do

Do you not think it rather strange?

The old is always new

And mouths of boldest boast admit

No one can outfox he

Who taps his scepter on the lid

Of dumb mortality

For human nature is prone to

…predictability

Then bravo to the student who

Masters humility

© Janet Martin