Growing up, life teaches you lessons.  The

More you experience, the more lessons

You learn, and this shapes your world view.  Lessons

Form your outlook, changing your personal

 

Perspective, as you gaze out, over your

Future, an ever-shortening view.  That

Future, the landscape of life, appeared bleak,

Featureless and hostile.  Preferring not

 

To look, understanding dawned that this is

An adult view.  Gone are the naïve joys

Of childhood, my lessons informing me

That life is filled with things you have to do.

 

The freedom to do what you want to do

Is forfeited with age; life lessons teach

Adulthood.  However, perception plays

A key role, and perception is coloured

 

By mood.  Depression casts grim patina,

Sapping life from every future.  What

Was understood to be growing up, has

Transpired to be folly.  Life holds richness

 

In every turn, holds beauty and depth

In every valley, diversity

In every forest.  On a grey day,

Remember to let a little light in.