Though slow the dugong never takes too long Nor like a wizard ever late to be For like the racing rat each pace its place Each goes with what it knows whatever grace It has evolved with or has made its own And how the dugong has is his alone The cheetah is unbeatable for speed As pig or human for their need for greed Though the cheetah could swim those other two Except for a few would rather not do Anything except what they are paid to Treats receipts or fame our name in Who's Who But a dugong going slow goes knowing No need for greed nor speed so goes showing No flurry of a hurry going free The scurry and the worry of the pig Or human for the petty nor the big Disappoints the dugong daily to see I saw pigs swimming in a magazine Some of us have swum so know what I mean When I say who may know just what to do Is the dugong doing what he must who I trust to know these waters as he ought Recall what the rest of us all forgot Though slow the dugong never takes too long Nor do I who sang you The Dugong Song +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMXIII