Random Leaf #1094 precisely cut

Please do tell—how

can I stay patient

when already

the knife is at my throat?

I am an honest man—

I will always tell

the truth that I know.

I can be kind—

only if the world is.

And I can tolerate just so much.

So if you tell me

to wait for a miracle,

and it never happens—

and I truly need it now,

please,

do not be too harsh on me.

There’s only so much I can take—

call it too little,

say I’ve very little faith, but—