Literature
Learning Experience
First you learn how to trust,
then to deal with that trust being lost.
You learn how to love,
then to live with a heart that's broken.
You learn how to cope,
and then how to try again.
You learn how to care,
and then how to let go.
You learn how to stand on your own
and in time of need, to lean on those around you,
and then to find strength again when those too fail you.
You learn to look back and see the mistakes you've made,
learn to take something from them, rather than to dwell painfully.
But still, as the years make you wise, you still get teary-eyed,
wondering if you're only making yet another mistake.
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