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The Revelation of Modern Slow Times Vs Young

How does it feel to feel and be recalled? As a teen, so slow to rise yet quick to fall; Away so righteous and never wrong; Surrounded by your dreams of miseries; While flowing down the Missouri; I challenge you to ponder; Hold your head up and wonder; This is the event of a learning and yet; You'll have to come up to past this, this which is life's test; Stop and look to the heavens skies stop being on the run; We have the greatest things the latest things in technology; but slowed down, held down is my seniority; This is the revelation; It's the revelation of modern slow times versus the young; The youth today are now so slow, slow down I AM tried such and too much in dismay; Often being accused, struck down and used; won't git up out of bed, won't do as God has said; won't stand on their own two feet most often obese; I am obsessed with my own self righteousness; by the slowness of their craft; So I too shall fall, crawl and hide; Keeping my playbook by my side; Hold your head up and wonder; this is the event of learning and yet I still ponder; You'll have to come up to past this, this that is life's test; Stop and look to the heavens into the skies stop being on the run, what's left; don hold your breath Breathe Stop and look to the heavens into the skies stop being on the run; This is the revelation; I am not trying to make you run fast; It's not about the water you soak up in a sponge; Or drink in a clay-glass; This is the revelations of modern slow times versus the young; Written by James Edward Lee Sr. for UNO's Poetry to Bridge Generations entry2014(c) Aug 1 2014

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