Waiting’s Close Lover When –

“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.”  – Rainer Maria Rilke

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.” – Paulo Coelho

Dressing myself with Waiting’s robes

looking in the mirror at When

Finding thoughts that without warning

haunt and scare my lonely Then

Question the mistress Waiting, again

to the end of never, When?

Waiting she dances, holding me close

and calling her lover Then

Her music of chance and sultry moves

under the covers of patient When

A cruel lover Waiting plays with me

as I grow old with desire Then

Teasing from me my passing youth

called Waiting’s close lover When

First Published in Opinions of Eye

01182013

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"Why?" – Questions are answered tomorrow

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language.”

 –  Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

 

 

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When the storm rages on the oceans way, 

“Why?” is not a question for the gales stay.

When the earth trembles and shakes us deep, 

“Why?” is not a question we should keep.

When the starry skies shed their bright lights, 

“Why?” is not a question for that dark night.

Reap the strong currents of dire sorrow,

 “Why?” is answered only by tomorrow…

06222012

The Greatest Question

“Don’t you know that I’ll be around to guide you
Through your weakest moments to leave them behind you
Returning nightmares only shadows
We’ll cast some light and you’ll be alright
We’ll cast some light and you’ll be alright for now” – Zero7

Behind all the crazy things men do, in all the tears cried by women, even the thing that Jesus cried out, is this question:

 “Daddddddy whereeeeee arrrrreeeee youuuuuuu?”