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Tuesday, May 22, 2012 ~ MAY 2012 FOLLOW ME BLOGGING CHALLENGE prompt is What are your views on waiting for things? Are you patient or do you stress about it? What sort of things do you do to pass the time while waiting? Talk about, was it worth the wait, or all just a bunch of waisted time? by Brother Nature

My Views About Waiting
Poem written about 19 years ago

Seconds
Walk into view
Dawdling over minutes
Waddling past light curtained portals
Seconds

Waltz with
Minutes beneath
Artificial white lights
Across bright floors hiding hours that
Waltz with

Seconds
Dance down the ages
Forgotten by minutes
Unremembered by echoing
Seconds

Beyond
Forgotten hours
Waiting outside of sight
Outside of hope outside of time
Beyond

It seems as if I have waited in line for something all my life. I wrote that poem when I was waiting for something, but I have no idea what. My views on waiting have not changed much in the last nineteen years. I have more experience waiting and, therefore, (one would presume) more patience. However, patience, like everything else, is relative. In fact, I suspect Einstein came up with the Theory of Relativity while he was waiting for something or someone.

Waiting Room
Written about 13 years ago
while waiting for my mother
to see a doctor.

Music on the edge of hearing;
ear candy echoing through empty ages,
through mind numbing aeons,
to reverberate
from a 20x8 glass brick wall
that separates,
but does not segregate
boarded sad faced patients.

Lights subdued,
like distant stars shrouded
in stellar nebula.

Voices,
slightly louder than the music,
shatter the illusion of tranquility
as scattered words fall
on uninterested ears.

Laughter reverberates!

One way I deal with waiting is to write poetry. Normally, the poems I write during these periods cover the subject of waiting. As long as I have a pen and blank journal, I am very patient.

Why are doctors’ customers called patients?
Because they need patience while waiting to see the doctor.

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