This Wait

a poem by Uma

This wait is so agonising and never ending!
At times, I feel it is silently and slowly killing myself,
And yet when I try to divert my attention,
All the while this wait is constantly alive in me.

I do not know how it started,
But it did, on its own and it consumed me so greedily,
Within no time, I was no more and
My whole being was just this wait

It does end sometimes unexpectedly,
And yields inexplicable happiness,
But it is so short lived,
The wait ends just to be reborn instantly,
Making the whole life lying
Miserably in this wait… timelessly!!