Slow me down

How

Should

Those who know of God

Meet and

Part?

The way

An old musician

Greets his beloved

Instrument

And will take special care,

As a great artist always does,

To enhance the final note

Of each

Performance

                                                Hafiz (The Gift, p. 151)

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I wander through life

much like

a hit and run driver

rushing

careless

hello

goodbye

see you later

Sacred One

slow me down

open my eyes

my heart

that I might treat

each precious soul I meet

with tender loving

care