Patience

Texting, faxing, tweeting,

Microwaving; fast food,

Drive-thru, delivery,

Fast speed, high speed

Fast train, fast plane

Quick this, quick that

Technology has made everything

Quick, fast, easy, and a hurry

And to this my patience has been weakened.

So I tell my dreams, my goals, and my aspirations

To hurry up, be here sooner

Why do you take so long?

And they reply, we are like plants,

Like trees, like flowers,

Like vegetables and fruit you eat.

Like the seeds that are planted

Technology cannot rush us.

The time it takes for us to grow is the same as it were

One thousand years ago

So, don’t rush us use your patience.

So I decided to strengthen my patience

No more text, fax, tweets.

I get a pen and paper and write my letters

And send them with envelope and postage stamp

I cook with slow cookers and ovens

I park far and walk; I pick up my orders

I go for speed that’s low

And speed that is slow

I take the longer way

And I make things slow, sluggish

Tedious and difficult

As to exercise and strengthen my patience

Poem is an excerpt of the book, “Poems from the Other Side”
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