Any Minute Now. Poem by Neso Onyeuche

I am patient

I wait for things to fall apart
so patient, I anticipate
the end before the start

I can feel the fire burning
but I only see the ash
and the matches used to light it
there is nothing more than that

There is simply nothing more
than the outcome I predict
and the catalyst that caused it
so the present is eclipsed

by this need to claim the future
all results must come from me
this control is too much power

far too great to let it be