The Wait

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The Wait

Self-Control Wavers

As the mind registers

“You will have to wait.”

A hundred ideas

Flood the attention

In a temporary panic of excitement

Each quickly Dissipating

Like Sea Foam on the waves

Leaving the stark sand of the Possible

Trapped inside an Hourglass

Disappointment battles with Necessity

Finally, Compromise

Is made, and Self

Settles into thought or action

Like an old house into its Foundations

Occupied in Theory, Distracted!

Only by the slowly-moving,

Unsympathetic yet Reliable

Hands of Time