Get Through Quick-

Grand Lake, OK

Speed read

Skip some steps

Get to the bottom 

Of this story…

Get to the end.

Push through

Make it stop

Rush on past

Consume faster

There’s more to ingest!

(They told you 

In school.)

They told you 

To 

Get on through.

Rushing on past

Not able to 

Feel 

At all

The consumption 

Is for knowledge—

Nothing more.

A taste,

To see—

To protect—

Make sure the 

Heart 

Only peeks

Through the lines

Don’t take it in

Don’t read slow enough

To let it

Breathe

Into your soul

Don’t let it catch

It might catch you

It might catch on

You might catch up

To the rest

Is this a game?

To compete?

Is this experience of life

A rush—

For what?

To experience?

To gain?

To spend?

To understand

With the mind?

What about the body?

How does integration

Happen

On through

Your whole being?

Making it part 

Of your flesh?

Your habits?

A part of you

Everlasting—

What about your heart?

Was it left behind

On page one?

The heart might be

The slowest one

It needs to breathe

To feel, real slow

To take in the scenery 

As you go

So, slow down

Long enough to see

To peer in

To experience

The finer things

Beauty is costly

It takes time

Is it worth it?

Not everything can be.

You have to pick and 

Choose

What you ingest

Protect—

If the heart is the

Slow one,

And if it 

Is a pump,

“Guard your heart 

Above all else,”

They say,

“For it is the 

Wellspring

Of life.”

(Proverbs 4:23)