Every day I’m learning
Through trials and tribulations
Learning about pain
Learning about patience.
 
Learning we don’t always get
For what it is we’re waiting
Learning about love
Learning about creating.
 
Learning about vulnerability
And the different ways we show it
Learning how to move in it
Learning how to grow it.
 
Learning what I want
Learning what I don’t
Learning what I no longer will
Learning what I no longer won’t.
 
Don’t always get it right
That’s a trick for the dead
But those of us with life
Need to learn to love ourselves through our mistakes instead.
 
Learning how to be more open
Let others deeper in
Learning how much I’ve kept closed
And as those doors open, of new paths to begin.
 
Always looking for improvement
Trying to learn and move with them
Set backs through bumps and bruising
Upsets to our rhythm.
 
Learning what I can
Learning what I could
Learning what I hate
Learning what I love.
 
Learning is the key
As I search for growth
And where there’s learning for me
There always remains hope.
 
Don’t always get it right
That’s a trick for the dead
But those of us with life
Need to learn to love ourselves, through our mistakes instead.
 
Every day I’m learning
Every day is a new one you see
And every day I’m churning
My mistakes into future opportunity.
 
Don’t always get it right
That’s a trick for the dead
But those of us with life
Need to learn, to love ourselves, through our mistakes instead.

© Daniel Breslin