Hour Twelve

Pause and reflect
for cause and effect.
They ask me to wait
as I watch the hands
of a clock hold time
more than I have been-
no rush, just wait
biding my time
in the midst of rhyme
They tell me, “Wait.”
For the next season.
The next opportunity.
For the next day.

Wait…

…on the Lord, I say
as the pieces to God’s puzzle
fall into place-
I wait.