When you seek to understand patience

Do not ask the human, nay but a soul forced into physical form,

life allowed only from the construct of

time on a birth certificate to the

time on a death certificate.

Instead, observe the red peony bud bloom

as she will and the

striped bee gather nectar and spread pollen

as he will and the

apple blossom bear fruit and the snow melt and the

river swell and tree fall and the

robin’s speckled blue egg crack from

what we cannot see

…

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