H The Waiting Room

The Waiting Room

You're waiting
Time passes
Clock hands frozen fast
You're pacing
Retracing
Your footsteps last path

Can't settle
Your fingers
Turn inwards then out
You fidget
Each digit
Examined throughout

Clock ticks time
Appointment
But time moves so slow
Once forwards
Twice backwards
Feel each minute grow

You hear your
Own breathing
Your focus turns in
Your ears hear
Slow echoes
Cacophonous din

Fast ticking
Slow movement
You cannot force time
The big hand
Small hand take
Forever to chime

Magnolia
D?cor
Some old magazines
Nothing to
Tempt you
Pictures: bland scenes

Lock digits
Then unlock
Mind numbing: as frost
Fellow travellers
Blank faces
Lost time: count the cost

Count eyelets
In leather
Fingernails enthral
Attention
to detail
Magnolia walls

Never once was
More lonely
Know this time will pass
Waiting for
Your name's call
Mind all far too sharp

Clouds passing
His Reverence
Your time it has come
Five paces
The trapdoor
That blots out the sun

Noose tightly
Adjusted
Reverend's low tone
An instant
Time frozen
As lever is thrown

How quickly
On reflection
My meeting it came
Lord mercy
For my soul
Never again

I'm waiting
No ticking
No ambiguity
No clock sits
The mantle
In eternity