If Ever

Patience is a balance between not pushing people and not losing them by waiting too long.

The unearthing of what it means to feel this;
my expressions exhausted
to shrug off all manner of soil
this chtonic instability
translating my most dead tongue
into a landslide, or else a small cascade of sand
to cough out before deciding to not speak
in the first place
aeons ago
such a revolutionary way to keep a secret
until its moment
is here