Love Poem: The World We Live In: Convenience, Expedience, Certain Things Are Hardly Slow Cooked Anymore
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Written by: Renee Gross

The World We Live In: Convenience, Expedience, Certain Things Are Hardly Slow Cooked Anymore

#QUICK! FAST! CAN YOU HURRY!

DON'T WORRY!
BECAUSE,  WHATEVER YOU MISSED...

THERE'S THIS...AND THIS....AND THIS...
AND THAT...AND THAT...AND THAT....
IN THE PROCESS, YOU MIGHT DROP MY HAND, 
BUT GOD FORBID YOU DROP YOUR PHONE...
THOSE *TONES* WE OWN, WHERE I'VE WITNESSED CRYING! IF MOMENTARILY THROWN...DOWN, PUT DOWN, PLACED DOWN; BUT, WITHDRAWAL CAUSES FROWNS. FRUSTRATION AND FEELINGS OF DEPRIVATION...

BUT,
BACK TO MY PALM...{WARMTH & CALM}
BOTH OF US,  HELL, MOST OF US...
WE ARE ALL SO DISTRACTED, {INNERMOST} BECOMES IMPACTED...WHAT A NORM??? NOW A CONFORM. 
I'LL BET YOU BARELY READ MY TEXT; "LOVED"...IT!
A MUTUAL REAL EXCHANGE,  FOR SOME IT'S FOREIGN,  PERHAPS STRANGE...LIKE A LOST ART FORM.
OFTEN FEELS LIKE A RACE AGAINST TIME...
OUR LIVES, YOURS AND MINE**
WHAT IF WE JUST S L O W DOWN...
TAKE A WALK AROUND TOWN....
ABSORB THE SOUNDS,  OUR BREATHS... MINE AND YOURS...THEIRS*** 
"SOMETHING MAY BE CONVEYED/DISPLAYED SO PROFOUND; WE NEED SOME S L O W COOKING!"

THIS EMPHASIS*
IS FOR THOSE INSTANCES...
THAT MAY BE MET WITH CONDITIONING
AND MODERN TENDENCIES...

THESE DAYS, THERE ARE DIFFERENT EXPECTANCIES...
CARS DRIVE INDEPENDENTLY, DRONES FLYING OPEN-ENDEDLY; ROBOTS...
SAYS, "HI, I'M REN-REN I'M HERE TO ASTOUND YOU AMAZINGLY!" 
(BRAZINGLY AND UNFAZEDLY)


-DON'T GET ME WRONG, I APPRECIATE ADVANCMENT PROGRESSIVELY STRONG!

BUT...

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT...

MY STANCE IS...
LET'S NOT FORGET CERTAIN 
TIME HONORED THINGS...
"IN CERTAIN REGARDS, THEY'LL ALWAYS HAVE WINGS!" 
WHERE SENTIMENTS ARE CEMENTED...
NEAR THE GOLDEN SUN, THAT SHINES DOWN ON RAINBOW HUES, WHERE WE GIVE AN APPRECIATIVE *SIGH* AS WELL, 
IT'S DUE!~

AND I HOLD YOUR HAND OR PAT YOUR BACK...PERHAPS A LONG SMOOCH OR FRIENDSHIP *SMACK*

YOU...IN TURN, DISCERN, THE MOMENT...
TO RELISH, {WE CHERISH} IMMERSIVELY
NICE AND SLOW! INDEED, WE TAKE HEED,
WHILE YOU AND I SHOW...

A WELL THOUGHT OUT/MOMENT SOUGHT
MINDFULNESS! ! !

FOCUSED..."FULLY" CONNECTEDNESS***


FLUFF AND STUFF OR "BEING PRESENT"...
"RUSHED" CAN'T ALWAYS BRUSH OFF, 
IT WILL BE A NEXT TIME: (CAN'T DO REWIND)


LET'S RE-SET {REVISE} 
"THE LITTLE THINGS, WITH WINGS" DOESN'T NEED PROGRAMMING...

HOW GRAND~! ! !  HOW FINE~! ! !


*THEY* OR *IT* 
QUICK, DON'T MISS THIS!
"NOW...TAKE YOUR TIME."
THIS IS ALREADY PRIMED~&~ALIGNED!!!


LOVE *THAT* FOR REAL...


THAT'S  QUITE AN APPEAL*
MIGHTY FINE; REVEALED...


NOW, HOW DOES ONE FEEL?



Renee D.  Gross {GHPPR} June 29, 2023#