A very long time out

Since starting nursing school, pleasant hobbies, such as this blog, have fallen to the bottom of my priority list. I'm not sure that trading pleasant hobbies for a 4.0 in nursing school is worth it, but I'll know in just a few short months. For now, a quick updating is ordered, stat!

The Secret of Life

Once during the war

on a bus going to Portsmouth

a navy yard worker

told me the secret of life.

The secret of life, he said,

can never be passed down

one generation to the other.

The secret of life, he said,

is hunger. It makes an open hand.

The secret of life is money.

But only the small coins.

The secret of life, he said,

is love. You become what you lose.

The secret of life, he said,

is water. The world will end

in flood.

The secret of life, he said,

is circumstance.

If you catch the right bus

at the right time

you will sit next

to the secret teller

who will whisper it

in your ear.

 

Diana Der-Hovanessian, The Secret of Life