The Long Wait

The Long Wait

The long wait is not the passive and the simply endured,
The long wait is the strategic and the calculated and the cured,
Of any impulsive action by the cold and by the clear,
And the long wait is the inventory of the fury and the year.

Every year of the long wait was a year of the deliberate,
Every year of the long wait was the cold and the elaborate,
Construction of the case that the long wait was building toward,
And the long wait is the patience of the cold and the long word.

The long wait, the strategic and the cold and the precise,
The long wait, the patience at the calculated price,
Of the deferred and the held and the kept for the right moment,
The long wait is the fury in its most articulate component.

I have been in the long wait for a very deliberate time,
I have been in the long wait through the cold
and through the climb,
Of the evidence assembled and the record kept intact,
And the long wait is the patience before the cold and final act.

The cold and final act of the deliberate and the right,
The cold and final act of the long wait and the night,
Of the patient and the vigil and the keeping of the cold,
And the long wait is the fury and the fury is the gold.

The long wait is over now and the over is the word,
The long wait is over and the cold fury will be heard,
In the deliberate and the measured and the calculated clear,
And the long wait is the wait that has been building to right here.