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Impatient Patience

IMPATIENT PATIENCE
Gone days filled with nothing;
Only serial thoughts of all the people
I never met and I busy making history
For a world lost somewhere out
There raping her fantasies, eyeing our realities.
Incest!

They killed some hope.
Took the rest and best away.
They come back very well dressed
In institutions, from top to bottom, organised
Only to foreplay, milk, sleep, wait a little,
And collect our eggs.

Many running, kicking in, out, and about
up and down, here - I wish i could tell you.
And many more unwriting themselves between
the lines of this poem, even as i write.
They'll rather remain a secret, like me.
They say, 'don't go telling anyone a thing';

I, sorry. We.
We, I. I, we.
I, we, we, I,
Shush! Tobi.
Shush you, too!
Ahaha, just joking, with you!

You see; we are many as one,
And I am one as us.
You see; they touch legions they touch me.
They drill out our minds out of our minds,
And I am lost.
Umm…I'm trying escaping revealing,
Because revealing is rebelling.
Umm, this serious one from me, take:

I have been sad. I know the taste of it.
I sat. I drank. I ate. Courses in threes.
Of this meal, for years like forever,
Patience, the good Samaritan,
Eats the skinniest bone -
Sits back in my head watching me
Uncorking uncertainties, throwing up
Questions to which I have no answers.

Patience is obese.
Patience is upset.
Patience is sick
Anorexic is me.
Impatient chews me!
Helpless is me.

Patience! Patience! Just that you know,
The best of me hangs still among the rest
Of the bests somewhere in their memories.
Yet, patience, you are my healer.
Will you consider me, because
I know, together we're stronger?
Stay with me!
Patience says, ‘I will'.

So, when you think all hope
Is gone and lost, be grateful
For the life willed to you.
We know this one thing;
A new hope for you,
Somewhere, somehow, is rising.
Many days are gone,
Yet in the belly of the celestial
Are very patient centilliards of
Blessed days waiting to be born.
Just for you.
See, newness is coming - hold on.
And patience says, 'be happy'.

And as for me,
I'm still here uncorking.
I'm still there hanging,
My Anchor keeps holding,

Patience! Patience! Patience!
Stay with me.
(Fading voice, curtain falling…)

Tobi Akiode
11.35.09.11.16
(IMPATIENT PATIENCE)
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