The Challenge of Slow By David Wilding (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!"
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'Eyes' - by David Wilding
- Piercing blue eyes, Searching eyes, loving eyes, Wanting and needing eyes. Eyes to die for and never abandon Have-and-Hold eyes Eyes that will always enjoy me and be there Eyes of my future Eyes of ONLY YOU Eyes stir our soul and soothe our minds They bring Romance and Love. ....
'Mum' - by David Wilding
- He depends on me He needs me More than Dad ... it seems I'm his life, his food I change him, play with him Wipe his nose 'd be hard without me Someone to 'choomk', to give him love To hold him, hug him And tell him he's special, I love him ....
'How Good is Great?' - by David Wilding
- How good is "great" ? And how "great" can it be ... ... when two people are as one? If there ever was Or ever will be A man better than I Then he would be The same as me again With you again No other way ....
'Strange Foreign Land' - by David Wilding
- My head is imploding This Strange Foreign Land is capitally so And beyond me. How do they get by? To survive, to live, to get by? Is beyond me And here I am - this 'compound' Is that special language? A code-word for paid-prison? Leave granted on paper with details and signatures ....
'Begun Again' - by David Wilding
- The earth quakes Lightning strikes to pierce the sky And the wild buffalo stampede For it has begun .... again Will it work this time? I know not Last so long, long of time I care not For it IS, and I want it this way And whether a day, week, month ....
