Waiting, Too, Takes Strength

📝Reflection

This verse begins with "wait" and ends with "wait," and between them sits "be strong." The poet knows waiting is not passive. Rather, waiting is an active battle against impatience. I always treated waiting as a kind of incompetence — it looked like doing nothing. But enduring the season with a firm heart is far harder than forcing down unripe fruit. Waiting was not laziness; it was the quietest form of courage.