Always Growing And Expanding

My dear T'ai Chi friend Pat ( who is 84 years young ) has just begun writing poetry. What an inspiration to all of us to keep learning and growing.

                                        THE ATTIC

                                   In dreams, when young,

                                   I was mostly

                                   lost, frustrated;

                                   held back, too late.

                                   But sometimes,

                                   just sometimes,

                                   I wandered through a house

                                   familiar (yet not familiar)

                                   room after room,

                                   until

                                   I pushed a door

                                   into an attic

                                   and leapt and leapt

                                   between floorboards and skylight,

                                   finding what was forgotten

                                   brought such pure joy.

                                   Now, in my dreams

                                   there are problems,

                                   puzzles,

                                   but I am there, solving them.

                                   Is this progress?

                                                             Pat Francis