Friendly Persuasion

 

Everyone is waiting for you

No one is waiting for you

 

No one ever waits

Waiting is prerogative out

Of necessity

If we can choose to stand still

For a time, we have done

Well, if

Uncharacteristically

 

Anyone who thinks waiting

Is a choice

Against

Seeming inevitability,

Well,

She or he is on to something

It’s a choice as opposed to

Stamping feet or yowling,

Thinking that would

Change anything

Or a create a surrogate procedure

(though one could place an ad)

Patience as a rule

Should be a rule

 

There is another aspect

That is waiting as attendance

Wait on a table

Wait on a family member

Or a friend in need

Wait on the Lord

This is service

On the whole, it isn’t bad

It numbers as a virtue

Sometimes we wait for numbers, too

Hey, I know

I’ll wait with you

 

C L Couch

 

 

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Friendly Persuasion a novel by Jessamyn West, a film directed by William Wyler.

 

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