students of life

wakeing up every morning,
thinking that today is a new lesson,
wondering what the task before you,
might be and the homework,
will it be meeting some new friend,
could it be finding the girl of your dreams,
should it be reconnecting with friends,
from the past,
or is it learning something about yourself,
because we will always be students of life,
today was a different morning,
i didn't think when i woke and saw,
a child in front of the face of a man,
still learning the game,
could this be,
a child of my own blood,
this is the love of my life,
my wife a close second,
and then time moves to fast,
one minute a student in high school,
the next,
the father of a student in high school,
so you wonder what the next lesson in life might be,
could it be meeting a new friend,
will it be loseing a relative to our good lord,
and learning to deal with the lost,
should it be how to be a father of a child,
barely born out of the pouch of a mother,
would it be learning the lengths of a mothers love,
could go to protect that of which is her child,
we will always be students of life.