Waiting in Traffic

With an Overactive Imagination

Dirty shallow pools of doubt,
Cover weary and bored minds.
Turning from yellow to red,
Traffic signals foretell long unmoving lines.

All day and a full gas tank,
Wasted while the signals decide,
If the green traffic lights work:
Is catching the city bus a better ride?

Line count: 8
Form: An Endecha is composed of 4-line stanzas (quatrains) with no stanza limit. The rhyme scheme is a-b-c-b and the syllable structure is 7-7-7-11.