While You Can Poem by Sam Pete

There’s poetry in everything
In all the earth and sea
You have to just stop and see.

There’s poetry everywhere
If you just take time to care.

Every passing moment
Live it to the lees

- For when it passes by
It doesn’t come again.

Take time to live
Pause and gently pass
For seeming trifles
Can be potent turning-points.

Oh, forget the rush
Listen to the thicket
And the grass.
P a r t i c i p a t e...
In the life that’s around.

Relish while you can.
Whisper back,
Turn and look around.
Gaze, smile, talk,
All while you can

- While you still can.