Spirals

Life happens in waves, swirls, and especially spirals.
We learn a lesson and assimilate parts of it,
only to forget some of what we learned.
Then we come back around
to the same point on the circle,
to the same lesson,
to relearn what we forgot.
Only it isn't really a circle,
which, in its own way, is static.
We see that what we've really come to
is the same point on a different plane,
a different depth.

The previous lesson is reinforced,
the lost remembered,
and new material introduced.
And we begin the process again,
going ever deeper
with each passing of the original point.
If we're paying attention,
our understanding and experience
bring us to much richer depths as well,
and the spiral has not been wasted on us.