Living Life

Buildings made for learning
Teachers taught to teach
Students were taught for life
Yet what we learn is not inside these walls
Walls of plaster built with words of truth

Out in the streets
Out and about with our friends
Here and there with our family
Sometimes what we learn is not taught

We learn about life not from others
Not from our teachers
Not from our brothers
Not from our friends or from our families

What we learn is by living life
Yet what we do defines who we are
Why, because like gangsters down the street
We learn from our pasts,
Move on from abuse and learn to stand tall

We make mistakes
But that makes us who we are
From all of our pasts,
It leads us to one single path

That path is our life
And only we can chose our paths
So, as we sit in our seats,
And ignore all our teachers

Just know this,
We learn not from taking notes,
But from living life.