Just can't wait

Andy Smith- July 7 2025

One day you realize that you just can't 
wait around any longer

you can't wait for the right place,
for the right time.

you realize nothing will change unless 
you change.

As my head fills with these thoughts, I look up
and see those done-being-patient seeds— 

kernels of wheat the combine missed or couldn't 
be bothered with

overlapping souls, waiting like sharks teeth 
to spring to life.

And when they couldn’t wait any longer, they finally did.

Sending out shoots and roots right there, 
where they huddled in a cluster high in the air.

letting their hopes spiral in the sun, trusting 
that hope itself might push 

them from their cocoon-turned-coffin, onto
the waiting soil, 

where even if a bird comes or a raindrop 
doesn’t, and they don't make it, 

they won’t die wondering if they lived.

__drafted July 8 2025

I will be quite busy for the next few weeks so I cannot promise to send a new poem each week through the rest of July, but I will definitely return to my regular posting schedule in August. Thank you as always for reading and engaging with my poetry. It means the world to me.