SLOWNESS AND SPEED

Many times tomorrow comes today
If you finish today’s task early;
Many times yesterday returns today
If you finished it prematurely;
They rhyme and seen to be the same thing
But will each result in a different ending.

It’s a fine line between slowness and speed;
Knowing the difference between need and greed;
To capture and move like eyes when they read;
Quickness must follow, Thoroughness must lead;
The path from intuition, through thought, to deed;
Only through fulfilment can you be freed.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

SLOW

Open slowly
Don’t show it all
Too fast –
Pause… a little more… pause… a little more
Draw a little breath
Every change is death
And rebirth –

– CHE CHIDI CHUKWUMERIJE.