Wait

 Patience needs cultivation.

We are so used to the immediate.

Immediacy is not what we need.

In planting reconciliation, waiting,

Waiting to listen, waiting to hear,

Not to talk and fill the silence.

Shut up! Hear the stories.

We must learn to sit and hear.

Once again like being around the fire.

Feet to it, intentional, not answering.

Then we will know the community.