School of Hard Knocks

Still fastened desperately to my childish ways Could I see the universe expanding? How in the light of my sheltered world Or in the dark of a closed mind Oh....what would a new dawn reveal? Let me grow....teach me the world, old school of hard knocks Oh! That I may not deny the pounding From where the knocking of the door resounds How from the pit of my faltering mind As though my wholeness could be packed Rigid, into that special fragment of my brain Devoted to old ways....let me not retain Keep me open...keep me ever learning Never folding, always growing Open my eyes and open my ears to the pounding... Cast mistakes as lessons heard... Knock my socks off now and again... So those hard knock sounds, aren't found in vain ------------------------------------------------------------------- (for Jared's Acrostic 2 contest)