The Long Game

Every day

I wake up and say to myself

you will have years to learn

all there is to know

being wolf-hungry 

is not a measured response

to knowing someone 

and it will not gain you 

their affection.

But I want to see

the fire we can start

I want to set ideas 

into the earth 

like fireworks ready to arc

up into the sky 

waiting for your touch 

to launch them out 

into the empyrean

which is not infinite

but feels that way to us.

Although I am playing

a long game 

of empire building 

the well of patience in me

is dry and so 

I spend each moment

living in tomorrow

choosing roads to build 

with my small army 

hoping that when 

we reach our destination

we will come face

to face.