Sunday, September 13, 2009

The Wait


wait
n.
The act of waiting or the time spent waiting.

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"There's nothing more stressful than waiting for an answer..."

(A. D. L.)

*Painting by Vermeer



The Wait

It is life in slow motion,
it's the heart in reverse,
it's a hope-and-a-half:
too much and too little at once.

It's a train that suddenly
stops with no station around,
and we can hear the cricket,
and, leaning out the carriage

door, we vainly contemplate
a wind we feel that stirs
the blooming meadows, the meadows
made imaginary by this stop.

Rainer Maria Rilke