Waiting..

I kept on waiting 

for I was told..

In some time...

I would behold..

It would come..
Beside this tree ..

I was so eager, then to see...

But I've been waiting for so long..

Was this the place.. did i hear wrong?

My legs ache..

and hunger and thirst

visit me oft... one after the first...

I can't keep track of time...

But i see dusk and dawn....

I've stopped keeping track

of each day that goes..

The path i'm on leads to nowhere..

I stand still... I stare.. I stare..I stare...

To an endless seam of the earth and sky...

far off i see.. a few birds fly..

breaking stillness..and the only sound..

is the flap of their wings and the cry of a hound..

And I lost stand amidst my own thoughts..

I'm waiting still .. I see it not..

- Evangeline