Forgotten lessons

Lessons taught. Lessons learned.

Life a maze; lost at every turn.

A hopeful song from a soul that yearned,

We learn to smile as our hearts burn.

We learn to wrong and then regret,

As painful memories blaze alive.

We were never taught how to forget;

Blindly we suffer as we strive.

We’re taught to caution when we trust,

Of strangers we should always be afraid!

Never were we told of the false crust

Of the loved one who painfully betrayed.

We learn to wish, we learn to pray,

Kneeling down as we wait.

We believe we will be spared dismay;

But how do we cope if it’s too late?

We’re taught to feel, we learn to love

As emotions rage with the breaths we take.

Content we soared like a flying dove,

But confusion’s the soulmate of heartbreak.

We learn to discover as we grow,

While fate throws us left and right.

Unprepared, you assume we know,

The path is a scarring endless fight.

We are told right from wrong,

Our instincts we’re taught to follow.

Hypocrites, we don’t know where we belong

In a society that condemns us with sorrow.

We’re taught to survive through the screams

Urged to laugh even as we cry

Life a series of unbearable dreams,

No one ever answered the question: “Why?”