Given And To Get Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

A letting go,
Although may be difficult.
To what begins to grow and move,
In another direction.
Without it to seek approval given.
Is a learning experience.
That can not be controlled.
But may offend,
Some who witness this begin.
With attempts made to prevent it.
However...
An ignorance that remains,
Would rather sustain...
And maintain the comfort of it.
Threatened by wisdom to gain.
As well as anyone,
Unafraid who has obtained it.
To eventually discover with others who sit,
Limited to defending...
Their lives to live from argument to argument.
Over that which they have yet,
To experience with it learned.
That seldom will one sit,
To be baited into an argument.
Over what it was they have learned,
To experience.
While living life to grow,
In directions they had no control over.
But allowed the process to obtain,
Lessons to learn and wisdom to gain.
With a doing made easier to accept and respect it.
Given and to get.