Published: 13th October 2023
Image: gR
"Carpe Diem"
how many of you wonder how you find yourself where you are now on some fast train that's shooting by the world outside and don't know why and wishing as it takes the bend before it reaches journey's end that it would stop to let you breathe and disembark then watch it leave so you could turn and walk right back to all those stations on your track and find those places on your list that life's timetable somehow missed then walk those junctions where you spent time deciding ways you went and pull a lever switching lines to one that points to better times where crossing gates unlike back then now open to free dreams again and help put right those signal fails you blamed when life came off the rails? each day we grow we come to learn time's just one way with no return but though we can't change all before we get to know life's journey more and had you changed the way you are your train may not have got this far for each dark tunnel lived each day led out to light here anyway and while those platforms from your past might well explain your travelling fast remember too that grass unseen grows right here now and just as green where taking time might help you plan a slower route whereby you can move to a seat to change your view and learn to love yourself as you appreciating all you see before Grand Central's destiny while knowing hope faith luck and care helped drive that train to get you there.
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