envelope (pegasus)

I watch you standing
Holding the envelope
Enduring the interminable dramatic pause
Before the nod
To open it

But I'll tell you now
The envelope is empty

Not empty with indecision
But empty with the answer
Empty is the answer

It won't be popular
It's not the outcome many wanted
The poets
The romantics
The mystics
The lonely healers
So desperately in need
Of something to believe in
Redemption
Return to innocence
Rain to wash the parched and cracking fields
That legends tell were once gloriously fertile

Nonetheless it is the answer
Despite all helpless hoping
In truth, the truth
Has long been standing here
With gentle patience
In painful smiling melancholy
Waiting to be known

This suspense is only killing us
And so at last I give the nod
For you to break the seal