Patience

Sit alone in crowded places smiling as you do. Watching lovers being sweet and wonder why not you. Look across the crowd of faces hungry for approval. Recognize the parasites you earmark for removal. Every little comment feeling like it adds or takes. Every reply through gritted teeth knowing how the spirit breaks.

You'll recognize awareness when you see it in a glance. You'll recognize self mastery when you refuse the dance. It scants and skates across the ice as you feel the weight. You can have a little but later you'll feel hate. Nothing lasts forever because forever is a climb. Nobody has the patience, nobody has the time.