Let's stop
Time for a moment
Why always rush?
Reality is a torment
Listen to the hush
Of complete silence
If you listen closely
There is always a difference
In the way something sounds
The way the air feels
There is so much that
The outside world conceals
Why must we be
Always keen to go
To the next place, why don't we
Ever take things slow?
Why don't we
Take time off the frets
Savour the little moments
We'd otherwise forget?
And have you
Just skimmed through these words?
No time to read aloud
You don't want to be heard
Isn't it just
A part of your mind?
A system forbidding you
To slow or rewind
You'll always skip through
Let the words blur your sight
And you would continue
To read it all quickly
No matter
How detached
Are these
Words
That
I
Write.
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This is one of my better poems, and I didn't like it very much at first, but the more I read it, the more I grow to love it. I got the idea for this in English Literature class again (believe it or not, that class generated a whole ton of my ideas) where we were discussing a poem by Christina Rossetti, and my teacher was talking about how we never seem to think about right now. We are always reminiscing back or thinking about the future, but we never think about this moment we're living in. It was a pretty beautiful concept, so I wrote this little fella.
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For the Heart Catcher (2015)
PoetryA collection of poems I've written throughout this roller-coaster of a year.
