HIGHLY   PERSONAL

 Highly Personal Poems :  1. Waiting ( on this page )  2.  A Sonnet for Katrina  3.  Giving Birth    4.  My Most Precious Legacy   5.  To Wives Who Take Love for Granted; My Music

                     Waiting

 

                                       

                       Waiting,

                            Eyes behind dark glasses,

                            Sleeping in daylight

                            In secret agony.

                                                 

                            Waiting

                            As planes soar and dive

                            But still no one knocks

                            To say, " I'm home, honey!"

                                             

                            Waiting

                            For news of mirth

                            'Bout coupling and hurdling

                            this world is full of.

                                                 

                            Waiting

                            Amidst chloroform and antiseptics

                            For that hesitant wail

                            Of the stork's primordial gift.

                                        

                            Waiting

                             In deafening silence

                             Yet joyful dalliance

                             For his declaration of love.

                                           

                             Waiting

                             On tenterhooks and bated breath

                             For sentences, inferences

                             Pronouncements and final messages.

                                          

                             Waiting

                             For an eternity of numbed fear

                             Of what will be atlast

                             When I receive the fatal shock.

                                               

                             Waiting, waiting, waiting

                             Can't we ever stop waiting

                              For once in our lives?

                                         ALV  12/27/87

    

 

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