Life Is Full Of Surprises Poem by Francis Duggan

Life is full of surprises seems true for to say
We learn as we live something new every day
Yet as we do learn we come to realize
That of life we know little this should not be a surprise
We have been learning from life before we learned how to crawl
They are lucky in a way those who think they know it all
With nothing to learn what we cannot have we cannot miss
There is truth in the saying that ignorance can be bliss
Knowledge on bushes and trees does not grow
And the more we do learn the more we realize so little we does know
But of the praises of knowledge do not fear tosing
As it can be a humbling as well as an enlightening thing
All of the knowledge we accumulate we do not retain
And that life is full of surprises as a truism remain.