the waiting changes things

the waiting changes things
the waiting changes things
the body feels the way
the waiting changing things
the heart knows the way
the waiting changing things

the waiting changes things when you are moving
the waiting changes things when you are still
the waiting changes things when you
have no idea what will happen
and when you think you know what will…

even when you said
“it’s okay, it’s okay,
I promise
I’m okay with waiting”
you can still name the waiting as hard
you can still name the waiting as waiting

for the waiting is made of many parts
long and short and confusing and clear
stretched over minutes and hours and years
years and years and years,

yes,
waiting is a part of life, a lot of life,
and then there’s all of life, all of your life
you have been alive all of your life
all of the waiting, all of your life

the waiting changes things.
it changes your sense of your time.
and for all of the waiting
that has happened inside your life,
life has been happening the whole time,
even as the waiting changing things
even as the waiting changing things

-Morgan Harper Nichols

Thank you for reading! This is a script for a video poem piece you can find here on YouTube: