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Stop to Smell the Flowers

I wish the blur of brightened days

Would stop and let me smell the flowers

But dragged away and forced to rush

The Human race sees nothing.

 

Our race, our race

We rush around

A flowing, endless rush of Us

Just us, just us,

We see nothing else

And no one stops to smell the flowers

So here I am, caught in the race,

Wishing I could stop a second

But if I did, I'd lose the herd,

And take up my life with the one that follows.

But still, at least, I could stop

Stop and stoop and smell the flowers

Sit and sing to cloudless skies

And watch the herds go flashing by.

 

We're a vein the runs throughout the Earth

That clots to watch the horrors of life.

But only those that affect us

Because we see nothing.

Nothing, nothing

Is what is left

Once our rush has rushed around

And if we could only stop,

Stop and smell the flowers

Regardless of the herd

Maybe, maybe

It will get better.

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Written by
anna-pavoncello
American
Published
Apr 27, 2013
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