Patience

Pic by Tharindu Amunugama

Waiting is of many kinds

it is a platform vigil

for life-trains that may arrive

or have passed in eye-blink moment;

waiting is a lover’s tryst

a mendicant’s wish

and news made stale by night wind

and neglect;

waiting is a short text message

between life and life

a train that was missed

and a train going in the wrong direction,

waiting is an end game of hope

in hopeless longing

for the beloved

misnamed or mis-taken.

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