Don't move too fast. Remember Damocles,
dining calmly while twisting overhead
a heavy sword suspended by a thread
threatened his instant death. Such times as these
require deliberate movements and slow speech.
The time for bluster and noise is long past.
Learn to slow down, my friend, and learn it fast,
or else learn what that keen blade has to teach.
Perhaps there's not long left before the snap
and flash, the last descent of screaming steel
and final darkness. Still, no need to rush
to fling ourselves into that waiting trap.
It's time we learnt to think before we feel.
You can look up now. Consider things. Hush.
1 comment:
brilliant.
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