Smoke and Mirrors

By Aaron J Coyner

Life is at its essence a series of challenges like Funhouse mirrors

 Each distorting the previous truth in complex and varied illusions

 At the end of the ride, one’s true character is but a grain of sand

Seeding the cloud of success and adversity.

Only by maintaining this seed

 can one navigate the course of events to a successful completion.

 Without it, our sense of self and the world around us disappear

 into darkness like cheap parlor tricks.

 So we enter the gates daily,

 well-trained yet unprepared.

 Confident yet cowering,

 we approach the life that awaits…