I'd like to tell you
"it'll happen overnight"
that you'll get exactly
what you thought
and "it will be all right"
But life doesn't work like that
Not without putting up a fight.
Not the kind you battle
with your fists,
the fight where
you have to come to grip
with the reality
you seek to find
and the peace within your mind.
In an era of instant gratification
we seek to fullfill the void
with the abundance
of riviting new sensations.
Unfortunately
this life of man-made
is upon a chess board physical plane.
And the greatest lesson to reap
it that "it's not about what you have and what you get to keep"
but
"it's what you've gained along the way."