Lessons

• Emma Schlederer
• Poetry
• 2005

Sometimes the world is just not big enough
To house us all, so one must fall.
Fall into the arms of grace,
But never really ready to leave this place
For one to go, and leave us all
Would bear a need for tears.
The price of living
We never can pay
So in the end, we leave

To where we go
Not one among us knows
For none have ever seen it
And come back to reassure us all
That the final end is worth it.

Sometimes the world is just not big enough
So one must fall, to save us all
We live, we breathe, we laugh, we cry
But in the end, we all must die

Some truths we hear, but never answer
Some truths we never see
But this one, being the ultimate truth
Is one no man can decieve
But where we fall, another one rises
To complete the cycle once more

For the cycle of life
Is as timeless as the sea
And the cylce of death
Is as endless as the sky

Death is a powerful thing
We can see beauty in it’s strength
Death is only the beginning of our journey....
Where one falls another rises
We shall rise again.
But sometimes, life is just not enough
A lesson we must all face