Wisdom

I’ve been waiting such a
Long, long time for
The wisdom they promised
Would come with age.
All that sage intuition of
Gray-bearded elders has
Somehow escaped or
Refused to engage.

“You’ll understand someday,
Mayhap when you’re older.”
It felt like a covenant
Back in the day.
And though I keep biding,
Awaiting epiphany,
Reason absconds like
A scared castaway.

But time is a traveler,
Patient and shrewd
And experience is a
Tutor of worth, 
And maybe if I can
Just live long enough
I’ll know what I wish
I had known from birth.

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