How they teach you

They teach us things we never thought we'd have to know
Like how to think fast mostly and sometimes respond slowly
We never see out of everyday the hum, the many gifts they bestow
So precious in nature yet nameless, shapeless, formless.

Sometimes they don't even know they're teaching you
That's when they teach you best
and the many conflicts that seem so useless
actually carry you somewhere you really want to go
but you never knew could use that place to grow

It is said they rub off on you like the hair of a horse
That their personality has a friction on ours and the two course
and the friction awakens or tranquilizes us to many subtle forces
Like how to think fast and respond slowly
and how to take an insult like a compliment without recentment growing
And see this little person and the temper that they're throwing as solo