Thorny Lessons
Come frail dreamer, raise your lids
the midnight veils are brightening
and sunshine dwells where your confusion hid,
within the shadows that are lightening
undoing dim-day disarray.
These bruises splayed upon your pride
are only notes that you have taken from
unwelcome lessons you've endured inside
the briars and brambles that succumb
to knowledge learned because you sought.
Instructive pain is but a state
that comes upon the tired
just go with it and let it take
you to the answers you've desired
to know, to learn and own.
The bruise and prick might skew the mind
but still there lives a craving for the rose,
the stings and aches oft melt behind
when hurting purpose is exposed
as answers pinched in petaled folds.
Copyright © Jean Marble | Year Posted 2009
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