Why not hurry and do what we do

Why not hurry and do what we do
What we can
What we were born for

Because we don't know for how long
These tools of our trade,
Our functions and faculties
Will last

Before we know it
we will be dead
or lashed to a disability
and then its all gone what is not done.

Rumi says:-

I was happy enough to stay still
inside the pearl inside the shell,

but the hurricane of experience
lashed me out of hiding and made me

a wave moving into shore, saying loudly
the ocean's secrets as I went, and then

spent there. I slept like fog against
the cliff, another stillness.

Rumi