Magnolia
While awaiting bloom, the budsof a magnolia tree will keep
all through winter. So too will most
satellite dishes, church doors,
governments and tools for felling.
A lost moment can last
a lifetime, the happiness
of becoming yourself
stays with you till you die.
Snow falls, years accumulate,
the habit of love grows in you unseen.
And, being, as they say,
comes to those who wait.
Beside the cold door
of that locked room
where you once prayed,
and then, in the midst of living, forgot.