The Challenge of Slow

(29th March, 2009)
 
"Take it slow!"
Walk don't run?
Don't worry be happy?
Just relax?
What IS it to you?

Here its meaning is a challenge
An affront to common-sense
Meaning "Wait for something to do"
Or "happen"

The tea helps
Gets me through part-days
But my mind races
And wants to be used
To be needed

How do they do it?
Every day like this
With little hope of more
Or action in life
When will they snap out?

I am not sure
Today I can, tomorrow another
One day smiles, the next scars
The point comes
When I have to cry out
"Take me now!"