The Virtue of Patience
Patience is a valued commodity
when time plunders expectation,
waiting, a torturous and invasive hindrance,
as slow the steps to our wants,
time like a second to second disappointment,
the reward so close yet so far.
Each day goes by an empty receptacle,
when our wants are stretched within time elastic,
drawn out like in slow motion,
not quite reaching our goals
and taunting our will relentlessly,
until hope is lost to a fruitless end.
Time is the brunt of our frustration,
blame our blade to serve its mocking ways,
yet in the end there is resolution,
time eventually compliant,
and we have our reward, but now done
its seems inadequate, as what do we seek now?
Patience is a paradigm of thought,
a slow and considered stillness
that allows life to move as it must, and we
not strung to its coattails,
will not suffer before it is done,
as we observe the cycles of want and resolution.
Patience is a thought released and forgotten
until in resolution is returns to us,
and in that way no anxiety, no frustration,
just life’s movement,
for without the demands of time, what bares weight,
when we find patience within our soul.
Tony DeLorger © 2017
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Patience is surely a virtue. Have faith. Well penned verse, Tony.
Thank you Phyllis, patience is one of those virtues that can change our lives, pity it is mostly achieved with age; I could have done with it 30 years ago. Lol