Waiting For An Answer Poem by Rick Elpers

How many times does one
Have to look in the mirror
Pondering the face one sees

Matching the inner self
To the outer
And coming up short

Shake your head quickly
To clear hopefully
The illusion

That is held as identity
With a name
Knowing full well

Ones goals remain steady
Yet the life lived
Fluctuates violently

Causing confusion asking
Questions to those
Who have no answer

Quietly listening and wondering
Has god stopped caring
Enough not to give some insight

Into the circumstance
Which he created
For me