Stripped Down BCR

I am waiting like a log all work suspended life put on hold until
You return
I pick up my glass of water and drink misery in awkward gulps...
I know how I can just flick you
Off
Like desert sand and walk away
I have done that before
When the sun and its heat got too cruel
But
I have understood a bit more about my heart.
I know I can
But,
I wish not to miss you for the rest of my life.

Why not then
Swallow pride and hurt
Down them with forgiving tears
The years have taught me
To submit to bend to accept
And survive
That's just another way
perhaps
To be
Amrita
The indestructible one.

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