I am with “slow”

[typing mantis]

I used to start with a pen in my hand everyday,

I would hum and haw, and chew my fingernails,

I was scared that the words that I'd write that day,

will jump off the page, and run away.

I don't exactly remember what day,

my words first behaved this abominable way.

But I do remember an easier time,

when the things that I wrote, on the page they would stay.

I was very ashamed of my strange affliction.

But in spite of it, I still managed to function.

For people who came to me, with writing demands,

I took to very long sleeves, and pretended I had no hands.

Then one fated day, when T.V. was a bore,

I thought I would sit, and test my words some more.

The outcome was, just as I knew it;

as soon as I wrote them, my words just blew it.

Except for one...

it was trying to run,

but was managing, just barely so.

The word was “slow”.

It made its way painstakingly,

off the page, off my desk, onto my floor.

It slithered and slithered across my room,

and oozed its way out of my door.

I quickly rushed out after it,

I thought, “Maybe, if I followed it,

I would get to where all my other words go!

This could be my salvation! I'd finally know!”

Such dreams I dreamed! Such plans I planned!

And followed on till dinner time.

In the distance the sun was setting low,

on the pavement... “Wait! Is that purple snow?!”

Surprised, I looked around,

or, was it the world that spun?

When I wasn't looking,

something must have been cooking,

for everything I knew, had packed up and run!

Perplexed, bemused, I stood there balking,

till I saw “slow” moving up ahead...

Then I shrugged, gave in, and started walking,
and kept on going till I was dead.

A lot that can be said has been said already. The syntax is very shaky and the end rhymes a little to simplistic, forced and repetitive. Nonetheless, as a concept it is verging on unusually fresh Main criticism is inconsistency in almost every department...but main concern is that you refer lower down to "my poem". Is this it? Will you write another? I would hate to think that you refer forever to this as "My poem"...singular
Best,
tectak

Of course I plan to write more! I have just taken up poetry, and I am pretty excited. Thanks for the encouragement!