Thee Waiting Place

           "You can get so confused / that you’ll start in to race / down the long wiggled road at a break-necking pace / and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, / headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. / THE WAITING PLACE… / …for people just waiting. / Waiting for a train to go / or a bus to come, or a plane to go / or the mail to come, or the rain to go / or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow / or waiting around for a Yes or No / or waiting for their hair to grow. / Everyone is just waiting. / Waiting for the fish to bite / or waiting for wind to fly a kite / or waiting around for Friday night / or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake / or a pot to boil, or a Better Break / or a string of pearls, or a pear of pants / or a wig with curls, or Another Chance. / Everyone is just waiting

~ Dr. Seuss

Here is where I wait to see

Everything my life can be

I don’t know what I’m waiting for

But I’ll know it when it comes ashore

Waiting for someone special to call

Waiting for a far-off star to fall

Into my lap, just for me

To keep in my pocket surreptitiously

I’m waiting for the mail to show

With an envelope revealing a Yes or a No

I’m waiting for a few small words to be said

I’m waiting for a spark to go off in my head

So I know where to go and what to do

So I know how to live and with who

Here is where I wait to know

If I have what it takes to get up and go

Somewhere far, somewhere new

Do something great, be someone who

Is loved by many, known by more

But I’m waiting to see what I’m good for

Here is where I wait to see

Everything that I can be

I don’t know what I’m waiting for

But I’ll know it when it knocks at my door

~ Aja Dev