Slow-Footed Time Is A Bloodhound Poem by Mark Heathcote

You have to forward leap when slow-footed time
Is a bloodhound on your scent, you must climb?

You mustn't wallow, lives flickering flame
Will one day extinguish you, and your name?

Don't over generalise too much
Don't live life with an eternal grudge.

Else you'll live a beast at Gods table
Learn a lesson from Cain and Abel?

… Not easy, the road of resentment…
Live life to the full and find contentment.

Don't want to go to hell any day soon
Be just a flower and let yourself bloom.

Orchids' see they've left the grave the ground
Their hearts you'll never find icebound.