A slow down prayer

September 10, 2013 at 11:06 pm (Poetry)

Hold on you are going too fast!

Don’t rush the days away so.

Time will come when you are

asked, “Did you see the ____?”

And you’ll have to say you were

too busy to notice the little

blessings in each moment.

 

Don’t rush the days away so.

Hold on you are going  too fast!

Time will come when you are

asked why you missed these

little blessings in your hurry.

Don’t you know they only

come once and are gone?

 

Hold on! You are going too fast!

Don’t rush the days away so.

Babes grow fast, seasons rush.

Firsts happen one at a time.

The day may come when you

wish you had slowed down

to enjoy their laugh, their

tears but it will be too late.

 

Don’t rush the days away so.

Hold on. You are going too fast.

Harvests only come after the

sowing and the growing and

you can’t rush them in your

hurry to get there, or here

The when won’t get done

faster in your impatience.

 

Hold on, slow down. Be still.

Don’t rush away the days.

The storm hides the sun

but the sun always shines

brightly through the clouds.

Time will come when you

will notice the blessings

you rushed past to get there.

 

Don’t rush the days away so.

Hold on, you are going too fast.

Laugh a little, be some kinda

SiLLy and do something wild.

Bottle up the memories!

Spend the moments you

have now, right now. They

don’t keep any better

than cut flowers who

are already dying at the

first cut of the knife.

Fading as you watch.

 

Too often we are caught up in the myth of measured time, the convention of spaces between moments, and we think if we are busy we can get to a point in the future faster. And we miss SO MUCH doing that!  And what we miss, and glimpse of over our shoulders as it passes away cannot be found again the same way.  Steal those moments, treasure them, hunt them down and live them with big deep breaths.  Even a storm has sunshine above it, just waiting to stream through.

Sharing at Open Link Night at the dVerse Poets Pub. Stop over won’t you?

Also this is a sister post to one I am doing at Strawberry Roan. Come by and check it out!

 

Hold on. You are going too fast!