Age...

and you will get wiser

Thank you glen

The compensation for aging is wisdom; the question is, "What do we learn?"   Is there a higher order of understanding, do we lean out over the precipice and see nothing more than more space?
The key to this, the answer to the vision quest is right here in the puzzle at the end:

I'm the keeper of my
happiness the master
of my body and soul
I am wiser


If we adjust our eyes and reread the words in a new tone, we get:

I'm the keeper of my
happiness: the Master.

Of my body and soul,
I am wiser.

That is, I am the master of my own happiness, and since I am the one in charge, I have come to the point in life where instead of splitting my body from my soul, I am wise enough to have figured out that body and soul are one in the same...a singularity, and they do not operate independently, but rather interdependently, not co-dependently, but in tandem, together as equals and therefore the same, facets of each other. I am the wiser one now, knowing my body and my soul, my wants and my needs, are the same.

The simplified beauty of this is made attainable by accepting I am both without division.  Feed my soul by feeding my body, and caress my body by addressing my soul.

You're such a great teacher Chris...I enjoy your comments!
Thank you for reading... ;)

chirpily rhythmic and pure . go ahead for further pithier endeavors.
Ali

Thank you ultimatesubliminal...:)

Excellent ink of self awareness! Well done T!  :)

Thank you poetikmind

journeys through your inner-vision a must for growth..lovely write this is

Thanks for reading Naajir

very well put, great ink

Thank you firefox

Thankfully with age comes, wisdom/clarity. To bad we didn't know this when younger but, the definition of wisdom is,

"The quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment; the quality of being wise."

I suppose wisdom has to be earned.


         Great insightful write, Tommie... Pan

I agree Pan..thank you :)

I bow to you ma lady! I love this piece!! You have captured so well the idea of reflecting on where we've been and how we've become stronger as our wisdom increases. Would that our children, while young, could have like wisdom. So many rough experiences that devastated us as children are now seen for what they truly were...our teachers ;)

Thank you very much lerdgoin :)

Yes you are tl...nice write!

Thank you strider :)

search no more your wisdom is great!

Thank you Vman :)

This made me stop and think: Am I the master of my ...

... Any time a poem makes the reader stop and think - then its done it's job.

Bravo

LSP

Thank you LSP ;)