Stop and the world stops along with you
or does it?
Look at the jumble and jangle
of crossed and tangled legs tumbling by,
Shoes flying high
Screeching like,
Dare we say?
Or just leave that part
to one's own individual imagination,
I'm sure you get the picture,
Don't you? ...

Calm your spirit from within
and marvel at the difference,
How much longer can any one of us
really continue,
With everything at top volume
Full speed ahead
At the constant clamour and clanging ...

Embrace the stillness
and remember,
Tranquility awaits
within the golden whisper,
Like a gentle caress
Lasting for days and days unchanged
silky and soft,
One we've all longed for
On our most passionate of days
Yet, this too has become all but foreign
to us now,
With our penciled in appointment times and schedules
packed inside our bulging planners,
You know the ones
We drag along,
Behind ...

Like trophies or carcasses we'll one day mount
on that basement wall or someplace,
While we gather 'round
and recount those days,
Those frantic hours
That sucked out the nights
Those nights that used to matter when
The stillness still meant something,
Something we used to need
a long, long time ago,
When we were known and still a part
of that thing we call,
What was it now?
Oh yeah!
a family
Hmmmmmm ...

Are you happier now with your busier self?
or do you miss the quiet as I do,
Those mornings remembered
as we lay in bed on what would become
a lazy day ahead
With nothing to do,
We'd watch the rain drops slide suggestively down
and turn to each other and smile,
How we would laugh and linger
and take our sweet time
With no where to go
Except with each other,
Content to be
Just you and me,
and eternity ...

01/17/2007

Posted on 01/18/2007
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