At least I've learned this much: <br />Life doesn't have to be <br />all poetry and roses. Life <br />can be bus rides, gritty sidewalks, <br />electric bills, dishwashing, <br />chapped lips, dull stubby pencils <br />with the erasers chewed off, <br />cheap radios played too loud, <br />the rank smell of stale coffee <br />yet still glow <br />with the inner fire of an opal, <br />still taste like honey.<br /><br />Julie Hill Alger<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lesson-1-6/
