How Much Longer?

A poem.
Also titled: I Carried Love. 


How much longer?
I am waiting on the promise.
How much longer?
I am looking for the hand of God.
Waiting for the time that is to come.
How much longer will we wait?
The choice was made.
The vows were said.
A new life began.
Days of joy.
Days of pain.
They ask me, if I had seen?
If I had known the future before I made my choice?
Would I still have made that choice,
If I knew then what I know now?
I faced the sanity and the madness.
I carried love.
I lived the life I chose.
Days of gladness.
Days of sorrow.
Would I still have taken this road?
Who wouldn't?
Who would not take the chance for adventure?
And yet be willing to settle for gentleness?
I watched our story unfold.
But I did not just watch it.
I lived it.
I carried love.
And looking back, yes,
I still would have taken that road,
Made that choice.

How much longer?
I am waiting on the promise.
Waiting for the time that is to come.
How much longer will we wait?