Waiting Patiently

Art: Mark Collins
https://markcollinsfineart.com/

Patience comes to those who have learned

the value of a thing: a seed or a beloved.

It’s some set of bones saying,

“I know your worth,”

and never stepping back from the heart’s

placement on what could be but isn’t, yet.

In this hurried world, patience is a living

life declaring:

“There is something dear to wait for,

to still for. I will. I am. Until the time is right,

and then—oh, my deep desire.”

~

The cardinal happened to be on a branch above

the feeder, looking down, waiting patiently,

but he could have been there watching the love

of his life, below, scratching in old oak leaf litter,

not yet aware of their springtime unfolding.

Would it have mattered? I couldn’t have

faulted him for either:

Black oil sunflowers

Anticipated devotion

~

What’s interesting to me about patience

is how an act of nothingness prepares something

yet unclaimed to take full possession of us.

Patience is the slow welcoming of our singular

demise. Oh, excruciating bliss!

Sigh.

So, how much longer will it be before your

lips know reward?

~ Jamie K. Reaser, Author

From a book collaboration in progress with artist Mark Collins

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