waiting – Shift Key

Haiku 56.21

summer by design
you are either in a storm
or waiting for one

can I write a poem
in the time I am on hold
for a service call

when the words
inside won’t
come out or

your dreams
never seem
to come
true

it is

like waiting
for the rain
that never
came

like waiting
for the wind
that failed
to show or

like waiting
for the sun
not to shine

or like the
night that
longs for
day

if only to
try again

hope again

I looked just above
the tallest tree to see
if the clouds were moving

they are floating ever so
slowly to the west while
my thoughts drift along

with them looking forward
to the time when the Lord
returns

because we could meet the
Lord in clouds such as
these on a day like today

when yesterday’s poem
will have been the last one
I ever wrote

a light rain in the
late afternoon cools the air
God’s peace fills the air

greater than faith with
hope is faith without any
hope at all at all

the unexpected
made it a hold your breath kind
of day still holding

we talked in the still
of the sun God listened to
every sigh and cry

the ER waiting
room made a long day longer
and our love heartfelt

if cars could fly you’d
be loose from Opelousas
and back home by now

cook or MacDonald’s
then we’ll settle in and watch
the next Miss Marple