Humility, integrity, sacrifice, tests,

tenacity, growth, adventure, rest

 

Opportunity, achievement, failure, awareness,

lessons, trials, judgments, fairness

 

Employee, owner, publisher, admirer,

ambition, stress, obsession, desire

 

Rebel, follower, listener, leader,

hopeful, depressed, patient, believer

 

Student, career, freedom, reborn,

seeker, stability, survival, return

 

Passion, heartbreak, anger, pain,

collection, charity, losses, gain

 

Consumer, salesman, colleague, guide,

shame, guilt, ego, pride

 

Innovation, bravery, loyalty, submission,

blindness, ignorance, efficiency, vision

 

Artist, explorer, verses, captures,

reader, critic, author, chapters

 

Cities, mountains, oceans, vistas,

pursuit, passes, completions, misses

 

Purpose, pleasure, denial, debt,

child, roommate, mortgage, rent

 

Son, friend, family, lover,

husband, uncle, nephew, brother

 

Creation, joy, laughter, tears;

a hundred words for forty years