Waiting

I learned to wait under the heat

Of my own desire fuming with fire

Towards what will quench my yearning

For an everlasting happily-ever-after.

As the heat grew —

I remembered the last reward at the end of such wait.

And it was worthwhile the suffering,

even as if it required the suffering itself

To make itself ever more salubrious.

So I wait

Under the heat.

5.26.2026