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WAITING
WAITING
We humans have a lot of practice waiting…
let’s stop and think this through…
for the first nine months of our life…waiting is all we do.
We spend that time inside our mother’s womb…
blissfully floating about…
while our parents spend the same nine months
waiting to greet us when we come out.
We spend a good deal of time in our crib…waiting…
searching the world above…
becoming familiar with the faces of those we will learn to love.
We wait till our bodies are ready…then we begin to crawl…
We can’t wait till we’re ready to walk…
which is why, at first, we often fall.
As parents we can’t wait for our children to start talking…
for their first words to drop…
Then there are those days, when they’re incessant talking…
we can’t wait for them to stop.
When you think about our life…call it destiny, serendipity or fate…
we are faced with a multitude of circumstances…where we are expected to wait.
We wait for a movie to begin…
sometimes we wait, in life, for a sign….
We wait for the traffic light to change…
and how often do we wait in line.
We wait for the seasons to change…
this wait, at times can be agitating…
(In Florida when it comes changing seasons…suffice it say…we’re still waiting).
When wishing to buy that car, house or clothes…
we wait to see if we can afford the cost….
Sometimes we wait for a final outcome…
to see if we have won…or we have lost.
We wait for loved ones at the airport…
sometimes they wait for us too…
We wait…once we find the right person…
for the moment to say ‘I do’.
We wait to open our presents…
they may bring us a laugh…a smile…a tear..
We wait for the doctor to tell us…news we are hoping to hear.
It’s amazing when it comes to waiting…
there is one fact we cannot ignore…
The time we wait can seem fast…or slow…
depending on who or what we’re waiting for.
I imagine waiting, whether easy or hard,
in the end can make us all a little bit stronger….
and for those of you who can’t wait for this poem to end…
you needn’t wait any longer.
