Nothing Learned

The baby learns how to walk

The toddler learns how to play

The child learns how to share

The preteen learns about cruelty

The teenage learns how to survive

The adult learns about love

and also,

about loss.

The Parent learns how to sacrifice everything

The Grandparent learns how to be a child again.

Then we die,

but before we go,

we realize,

nothing was really learned at all.

-C.H.