With our lives so busy <br />We fail to notice <br />Things around us <br />Things, we take for granted <br />Cause we know <br />It will be <br />Tomorrow and the day next <br /> <br />Flowers for instance, <br />Grow quietly, <br />Unknowingly, <br />Spreading its warmth and joy to everyone and anyone <br /> <br />But do we once <br />Stop and smell the flowers <br /> <br />No instead <br />We pluck them, <br />We tramp them, <br />We throw them, <br />And we walk passed them <br /> <br />Never do we praise its beauty, <br />Selflessly, <br />And lovingly. <br /> <br />That’s because we are too absorbed <br />In our very own machine-like lives, that <br />We refuse to notice anything but ourselves! <br /> <br />So I plead to you now, <br />Stop and smell the flowers <br />Before it’s too late!<br /><br />Megna Kalvani<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/stop-and-smell-the-flowers/
