As I Wait for You

As I wait for you here

the whole huge world turns--



storms are raging in the Atlantic

and there's severe draught in Africa;



plane crashes in Bombay:

no survivors. Authorities searching for black box;



two new planets discovered in binary star-system;

how long before the cosmic phone begins to ring...if ever?



while I wait for you here...



there's a Russian submarine w/nuclear heads

stranded at the bottom of the North Sea:



a hundred and eighteen men waiting for their fate

in their liquid tomb;



a billion souls added to the world this minute,

as the huge world turns...



Suddenly--



          time stops:



                       you are here.




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