A Life Lesson To Learn.

No one told me 
it would be like this— 
how growing older
is another passage
of discovery
and that aging is one
grand transformation,
and if some things become
lost along the way,
many other means show up 
to bring me closer 
to the center of my heart.

No one ever told me
if whatever wonder 
waits ahead
is in another realm
and outside of time.
But the amazement, I found,
is that the disconcerting things 
within the here and now 
that I stumble 
and trip my way 
through, also
lead me 
gracefully
home.

And no one told me 
that I would ever see
an earth so strong 
and fragile, or
a world so sad 
and beautiful.
And I surely
didn't know 
I'd have
all this life 
yet in me
or such fire
inside my 
bones.

Susan Frybort