Graduating From the School of Hard Knocks

1 Knocked to the Ground There’s no bell, nor stars— just bloody knees. You haven’t thought of heaven or hell, when you cursed the sneeze. 2 Ignoring the Obvious Cause Using a whisk to dust off the hole in your knees. You’re a bigg’n who straightens your back, though your neck won’t calibrate left, right or South. 3 Whoops Why’d you fall on your whoopie cushion? Tailbone thrashing like a mermaid against the current. Baleen curses - two-fisted. 4 Slowmo Recovery No ambulance for your pride. You scrutinize your shoes for blubber, crap and scars. 5 Apex The spreader was keen, intelligent, even. Theory of climbing impeccable but without horseshoes and cheating on your tippy-tippy toes your nose meets the grindstone of regret. 6 Watering the Grounds The soil needs warm earth and worms but they tend to be off put by church. Nothing learned…nothing gained. 7 Angels on High Potluck’s not for you but the scent of savory, sweet and scrupulous tantalizes. 8 Nest Egg Wash yolk off your face. Smile it’s sunny. Tripping - tongue says,”Oh my goodness.” You chuckle as you take a big bite out of new life. 10/7/2021 To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Eph 4:22-24 ESV