July  4,  2020

  

“HURRY”

"Hurry." I'm filled with too much hurry.

“Hurry …. Hurry .…”  is my inner sound.

Sometimes I add an “up” – as in “Hurry up!”

“Hurry …. Hurry….”  I keep watching my watch –

which doesn’t seem to go faster…. “Faster!”

I hear an ambulance getting closer. Good!

“Hurry!”  as I inwardly scream.  It gets past

me as I assume it’s heading for whatever

is causing this traffic jam – on this road

that is blocked. I sit back in my stopped

car – close my eyes. I had put my car

in park.  Traffic will start flowing again.

It always does. I’ve been in dozens of

traffic stoppings – dozens of conversation

jams – supermarket check-out wrong

choices. I breathe. I meditate. I let go of

this need - this scream to “Hurry – hurry up!”  

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020