Quick!...Slow down!.. Slow down!

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I'd LIKE to be learning, ... to be ... quick to listen, slow to anger, and slow to speak.... 

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Oh God, you do so well at modelling,

yourself, what it is that you call us to;

you're only heard by those who specially

are setting themselves up - to learn from you…

And even then, you're like a Moose that's wild,

who dain't desire intrusion in our life.

You're quick to hear, and any call your child

might make to ask for help, finds your help rife

(not if it's help they're wanting to exist

apart from you, and then to just "get by",

yet) you'll enable life that will enlist

itself to learn, and give good things a try;

and live in wonder ("fear", they used to say),

instead of thinking ev'rything's sewn up

with all the findings we've got here today;

that's willing to believe truth will erupt,

and end up being vindicated by

reality (that certainly "takes sides"

with some ide-as, those that truly "fly"

in fact, while others "fog", and cause divides.

And then you're "slow to speak (to make us hear)!"

And when you do, it's specially to serve,

There's none of your own life needs us, it's clear,

you love us, well, quite freely, what a nerve!

And like you said to Moses, you are still

quite "slow to anger", full of patient love,

you'll let them make their choices, always will;

while backing up those born here "from above".

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