Slow Down!

Seasons rapidly
pass by. No photographs or
art can make them pause.
Life is all flashing moments.
Like flesh pink blossoms
as they fall, softly to ground,
in spring-time, we should
follow the slow flow of days.
The child within us
knows the opening of forms.
And Buddha knew why
The lotus is beautiful.
Everything happens
In its own time. Wise sages
hold this to be true.
If we were more like their ilk,
Then perhaps, we could
be detached from roaring worlds.