The Great Reflection

[cfgorman]

Wooden floorboards track shoe sizes, angst and growth,
Pine sits noisily and anonymously moves students dust, nature’s rain and snow,
around the lab, persistently supporting their progress, in this place of learning
… my refuge of years.1st stanza, very nice. I can smell the classroom, feel it.

Now, a completed nest somehow perfectly surrounds me."somehow"? I don't think so.
Like some giant physics experiment, disproving my own classroom words,"Like some" too many words
“Matter cannot be created or destroyed”
Technically I understand, reason drives all,
… save love and the need to do good.

So let’s dissect one last frog, one more experiment, measure one more isotope,
and see what registers on the Geiger counter of my humanity. I like this
Reflecting on a life of much love, children, the desire to help others.
Was it for me or them, both perhaps?
… This knowledge is perhaps inside to discover.

I like the classroom images think they add a lot. Seems a little wordy in places as noted. The question at the end sums it up for me. Good job