TRIP TO ELTHAM PALACE POEM 44

Waiting is not always easy. Ambling an hour in a park is very different from waiting for someone late for an hour, for example. One is no more engaged in activity of productive nature and yet one is very pleasant and the other is often considered arduous. They say, good things come to those who wait. So, we carefully stretch ourselves to patience, which helps us get the good things in life.

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“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.” Leo Tolstoy

Your Path

So now we are in love,

I wonder on which journey

You will go on,

Is there a plan in your mind?

Our days pass in pleasant motion,

The time is set and the task is clear,

But where these lazy days of splendour

Lead is not certain.

Today we are content and live our lives

As children, pacing with footstep,

Ambling through situations as they come,

Without a care to what lies ahead.

I am childlike and so I fritter,

The hour pleasantly,

Never truly melancholy as you are here,

To instruct and guide as if a tutor.

So I teach diligently the child,

And pace my life as if I too need a

Quiet hour in the afternoon,

To contemplate the activity of the morning.

I wait to lie in your arms,

Anticipating your comfort and steady nature,

As the hours pass there is no progress

Or construction or target,

Only the long wait for your love.

“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.” Rainer Maria Rilke