On Patience

Patience isn't always just waiting:
             sometimes it is moving forward anyway.

Patience, sometimes, is expecting an answer
             even though you can no longer pray.

Sometimes falling asleep takes patience,
             you can't catch sleep while waiting for it.

Dreams are neither patient nor impatient,
             sometimes they stay, sometimes they don't.

The dead must be patient, all that waiting,
             sometimes I don't think of them at all.

Being alone used to make me very impatient,
             now, sometimes I grow impatient for loneliness.

Thank you, love, for being patient with me,
             it's just that sometimes I can't help myself.

Writing a poem should be an exercise of patience,
             often it is a hurried push & turn away.