This Is the Time to Be Slow - John O' Donohue

 

This is the time to be slow, 

Lie low to the wall 

Until the bitter weather passes.  

Try, as best you can, not to let 

The wire brush of doubt 

Scrape from your heart 

All sense of yourself 

And your hesitant light. 

If you remain generous, 

Time will come good; 

And you will find your feet 

Again on fresh pastures of promise, 

Where the air will be kind, 

And blushed with beginning.