patience

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i'm a patient person

it's easy to wait

easy to count down weeks, days, hours, minutes

it's easy to wait 821 days until graduation

2 and a half weeks until spring break

2 hours until the end of practice

2 more minutes on the erg piece

750 more meters on the 2k

time passes constantly, and you know the end will come if you just wait

but it's hard when you don't know when the end will be

when you're waiting for someone to love you

when you're waiting to be happy again

when you're waiting for your father to get better, and love your mother

when you're waiting for the day that you'll finally die, so that it'll all be over

and you won't have to wait for anything again.

i guess those days are past

i wait for happier things, like spring

and rowing on the water

and happy days with someone who makes me happy

and for someone just to say i'm beautiful, and i mean the world to them

and they never want to let me leave.

but i'm a patient person

who is good at waiting

and i'll wait as long as i need to for that to happen.


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