Waiting
I was waiting for you.
I heard your knock at the door.I’d been waiting for you in the shadows, in the dusky, silent shadows.Chin on my knees, arms round my legs, and I waited.Hooded eyes, thinking of you;Thinking of what you were bringing striding up the path, alive with hope.I shifted; a moment; a tense, hanging, weighted moment;The pause before the pendulum swung again.My heart was on a string anchored in the core of the earth,Waiting to be s...