Life is a journey with twisted turns and not a test

Still there are lessons to learn by walking its forest

Life is not a race but growth that forms slowly

The best of which happens almost incrementally

In hoping for life, it is best to have a strong foundation

To strive for anything less is a gravely missed estimation

Disturbance is not bad but, in fact, always needed

It carries with it valuable lessons that must be heeded

What can’t be gotten over, must be grown around

Or, at least, that’s a great truth that I have always found

In time, even the deepest wounds usually mend

And in all of this travel, it is most best with a friend

It is in doing so that we most best meet our stride

Matching the pace of those whom we wish at our side