Stop The World

A rap/spoken word plea to slow things just a tad.

 

Stop the World

 

Stop the world I want just one

chance to look at things in slow

motion, not at the rapid speed

the baseball umps have to decide

if someone beat the first baseman’s

tag. It’s too fast to find my

life meaning, to decide if my job is

my job or my kids or my wife

or to paint or to write. And if

the purpose is to find a balance

between all of these things, or maybe

not, just to accept the turmoil

of our small piece of the universe

and how little we can possibly know

about life and atomic structure and

baking a pie

and comforting a child

or an old man who lost his wife

whom he thinks was his whole life,

well then how much of each one,

or how much chaos can any

sane (or insane) person place

on his own seesaw?

 

2005  David P. Eckert

Reviews

[Kara Emily Krantz]

love this - love the way you say what was in my mind :) it's so true... it's all moving so fast, but is it supposed to be that way?

:) i really like this one, m'dear.

hugs

from one insane poet to another

[Krystal Waters]

This sounds a bit like what you are trying to do now... And it looks like it was written in 2005. Interesting. I think we all juggle... try to figure out what is more important. Trying to find a comfort zone with the kids, the job and wife... Real life situation put down in a poetic form... very nice and I can soooo relate!



Kristine Yay, get to be the first one to review!