one speed

nothing slows down

like you expect it to

when things get out of hand

and you can’t keep up

but you don’t worry about it

because sometime soon

you’ll have a hold of it

to put things in their places

and make sense of what

comes so fast

you can’t hardly tell

what to do or who you are

but it’s still not worth

sacrificing the newness

to stop and piece

together the oldness