For the sake of a break – a poem

For the sake of a break – a poem by P.K. Odendaal – June 2020

Stand still and hold fast,it’s time for a repast

You arrived here too soon like an age old buffoon

  

Our purpose of life isn’t to speed up the strife,

but to move quite gently and focus intently

Calm down and take stock of every old rock

which lies in your path and stops you to laugh

Its time to come clean of every old dream

that makes you recall the cause of it all

Water under the bridge can’t make you rich

And never return to bridges you burn

Life has enough of very good stuff

Its never the time to think of your prime

So shed the few tears you held back for years

Live in the moment and forget the atonement

Whats past is past and should never last

To let you be ashamed for what you are blamed