Waiting for a bus or train
Waiting for the light to change
Waiting for the rain to stop
Waiting for the shoe to drop
Waiting for a grade or raise
Waiting on roadwork delays
Waiting for another clue
Waiting just to hear from you
Waiting for the day to end
Waiting to see round the bend
Waiting for the phone to ring
Waiting through the cold for spring
Waiting for important news
Waiting to see who will lose
Waiting to prove if it’s true
Waiting just to hear from you
I wasn’t really sure if I was right or wrong
But the elephant in the room showed where I belong
All the way to town I was looking for a shoe
When all along all that I was missing was you
The hardest way to go is to try the wrong way first
You never get the tune til you sing the second verse
You can talk to me til you are blue in the face
But do not judge until you see the tortoise win the race
Why is life so mixed up, I’ll never know for sure
But someday it will all make sense if we can endure
Tell me, is there something out there
I can find if I keep on?
Tell me, is all that I worked for
Still inside or is it gone?
Tell me, where are all the people
That I thought were friends of mine?
Tell me, whether this direction
Levels out on down the line?
I can tell you, it’s not easy
To have faith when you can’t see
I can tell you all the times we
Acted on uncertainty
I can tell you, you may never
Know why things were like they were
I can tell you every detour
Made us press on even more
Faith is acting, not just hoping
Things will work out down the road
Live today with trust and courage
Worry just weighs down your load
Raindrops splash in purple puddles
Wind in pointed pinwheels rattles
Thunder speaks in rumbling riddles
Sky is cracked where lightning whittles
Frosty dirt and dry leaves crackle
Windblown cattails’ seedpods tickle
Woodpeckers on bare trees chuckle
Burrowed critters wait the sequel
Snowflakes craft a crystal cover
Icicles on tree limbs shiver
Drifts of snow pile up and over
Blinding white goes on forever
Butterflies on flowers flutter
Squirrels crack nuts with a clatter
Wings of bees and insects glitter
Birds trill out their tunes by letter
Every season, every day
What a bountiful bouquet
Chasing after something with every breath I spend
A great, elusive something up there just ahead
If I can only make it around the nearest bend
I’ll catch up to this phantom, escape all that I dread
Chasing after somewhere that everything is good
And in this perfect somewhere my life falls into place
My role, my world, my plan for life is clearly understood
And every puzzle piece is fit so neatly in its space
Chasing after someday when all these things are found
I’ll finally stop searching and enjoy life all the way
Complete with love, success, and health – perfection all around
I’ll have no fear, regret, or doubt to darken any day
Chasing after something, somewhere, somehow, some day
When all along, it’s been right here, if I will only stay
Vivid crimson, golden fall leaves
Crisp and wrinkled, large and small leaves
Fields of corn turn sun-dried saffron
Last truck filled with harvest’s haul leaves
Critters dig in winter burrows
Each geese flock with farewell call leaves
Hay in bales and grain in silos
Sinking sun in shadows tall leaves
Cold wind carries winter’s first snow
Bare trees wait return of all leaves
