Even Prompter

Waiting for Godot (apologies to Samuel Beckett)

Waiting for Godot (apologies to Samuel Beckett)

Good things come to those who wait
and patience is a virtue,
reward is not devalued late,
forbearance will not hurt you.

Our ancestors believed in these,
their outlook was not surly;
this day may be the one to seize,
the night before, too early.

Yet now desire is instant sated,
we fret and gripe when thwarted,
with fury greet whene’er belated,
and so our time’s distorted.


Line count: 12
Rhymed abab
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 48 June 5 2023
Prompt: Waiting.
Note: A cautionary ditty that might have sprung (but didn’t) from the mind of Mrs DoAsYouWouldBeDoneBy of the forgotten book The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley.