the answer my friend is... Obvious ;)

have i rushed headlong into someone?
inviting whatever that comes along with it?

the guilt then follows without a remorse
due to lack of patience, to assess the next step...
before letting someone else know me,
before getting to know them well?

i guess the questions make the answers obvious.


but would you walk up a mountain slow,
or strain every fiber in your body
in a rush up ahead to reach the peak?
breathlessly to the point of going blind,
test the limits of time and space...

to figure when you risk the very existence,
whether realization of 'being' gets spilled out
like sweat on the very ground your feet tread...


relationships may not be like a trek on speed,
or like, thunderous wind rushing to your ears,
when you pump with your feet and try to fly...
to make time move in slow motion,

as you near your meeting point, that connection
with all the dangers that may exist there,
when you reach your destination or exhaustion..

there is nothing more to go ahead!

there maybe thrill in the chase,
but is that all there's to life?
and am i ever going to mature,
accept and act my age...
slow down?

(*apologies to anyone, whom i might have hurt, even unintentionally...  and for my hurts, none needed..  as the quote goes; “How wild it was, to let it be.” ― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail )