Love Poem: Dead Wait
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Written by: Lori King-Roberts

Dead Wait

DEAD WAIT

You brave enough child

You brave enough man

Just because you will it

Just because you can

To pierce the everchanging rock

To crack the patterned egg

To peer into the center

To witness then to beg

Yes, he left your mother

Said he disappeared

Said I stole him from her

Decidedly, flipped fear

Then drip drip drip 

The trickle

Drip drip drip the bleed

Gashes gush from every side

Every blatant need

Vigilant servant lover

Wishful injured steed

No blessed nor glory's cover

Just bog like tacky weed

Snares at every crossing

Babies become boss

Grace shimmers only briefly

Persecution circumvents the cross