Slow Down

Slow down
as you travel
the rushed and raging roads
the loud and loquacious hallways
the crazy and confined tumult
of the busy lives we lead.

Slow down
as you travel
the gabby and garrulous expeditions
the vain and verbose conversations
the babbling and blithering confines
of the busy lives we lead.

Slow down
as you travel
the prattling and pretentious confrontations
the chattering and clattering nonsense 
the cacophonous and clamorous guffaw
of the busy lives we lead.

Slow down
as you travel

for the lives we lead

are more than today and tomorrow

but a sum of caring and calculated acts

that serve and support others.


Slow down

and make your life matter.