Live and Learn

The psyche is a lightning thing  
and flesh burns like a tree  
within the maelstrom where we sing  
of sad mortality.  
 
The soul is an experiment  
like lab rats testing pain
and never mind the detriment  
done to the heart and brain.  
 
And in this hell we must make do  
with less than what we want  
spinning tribulation anew  
as something like a jaunt...
where lessons learned along the way  

are how the fears allay.