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I Cannot Abide Waiting

Inspired by Hamnet

By Poet DillPublished 2 months ago 1 min read

This impatience

is of the learned sort,

a defense against

the anxious.

Action thwarts the what if

even if it still exists,

but a rolling rock gathers no thoughts

of failure.

I want this.

Both the victory

and the failure,

unrealized love means life goes

as it has.

It is too long,

the space between my decision

and hers.

I want this.

How terrifying

that I might be wrong.

Or right.

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About the Creator

Poet Dill

Poetry is to me what for others is to breath, part the heart, part the soul, part the brain, parts as whole. Both to write and to read come so naturally in diverse styles, serious and play. I'm a poet.

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