A Background Notion

Patience is a gift

Something you have or you don’t

You can try all you want

If you can’t hold on

You can only let go

Jealousy is the color of jade

Yet patience is one you can’t pick

It’s not like anger

Where the red is all consuming

Holding on to everything in sight

Destruction all around

Forgiveness a background notion

Yet here you are

Standing at the crossroads

Hope a gleaming mirage

So close yet so far away

Just out of accessible reach

Like a taunting memory