Waiting

Knocked out by the anxious awaiting of answers and conclusions sitting on an old couch. Smoke pushes smoke out of screens and opera would be appropriate for this setting. Bought out by brands and corporations mud the visibility of a promising future. Wake up to phones ringing, the caller is an enemy. You stir in bed waiting for her return and you wait for justice and you wait.

Waiting and always waiting with anxious hands shaking over a keyboard.

You want the stranger out of your life, the threat to be eliminated but you ask too much.

Threats are constant and you are always defensive.

He stole her lips and you never want it to happen again.

His name shivers your spine and you get claustrophobic when his name is used in shared sentences.

An enemy you will never meet.

But you hope you'll meet so that enemy will become a friend.

Friends always start as enemies.

Raise your flag and get on your knees

faith and preservation

you pray for sun to illuminate the dark land

but clouds are in the distance

close by a notch

wait

wait

and wait


but that will get you no where.