Patience

Starts out thick and firm
PATIENCE
With a smooth surface of
Freshly laid asphalt
Covering the worries
Until time and doubt
Eat away at the ground
And sinkholes
And potholes
Rip holes
In your
PAT_____CE
____IEN

And the worries leak
Onto the surface
Cracking the pavement
Along the fault line
What once was
PATIENCE
Falls apart into a crumbly
Despair of never-will-be’s
Leaving behind only the
P
To remind you that
PATIENCE
Is virtue even when
Out of reach.