Life is a puzzle That won't be solved By the argument of your mind. It can neither be cracked In ivory towers Nor in the parlors of grapevine. The mystery of life Crowns the benighted With a twist of a wand Leaving the enlightened To commune with the dark. At best, it is a glass enclosure Attuning your moves Along the belt of blessing Beneath the shelter of stars And at its worst, A dungeon floor Delineating your lot In unbending reality Under the dome of despair. Exposed to eternal pumping Of raw information, Student of life knows But a speck of curricula At any given time The process of life's lessons Extends well beyond the grave Not even multiple lifetimes May suffice to scratch the surface Let alone discover the core Yet the student of life Knows no limit Goes to village today And metropolis tomorrow Mounts a mustang to Shangri-la Hops on a boat to outland. Tantamount to the amount of stars Are pictures of life Full of synonyms and antonyms Boding inflections and reflections Of thought, taste and bearing In the academy of day-and-night.