Waiting
German: Warten
Common meaning:
Delay, pause, the act of not doing until something happens
Clear meaning:
The tension between now and imagined fulfillment—not stillness, but the holding of a time that does not exist.
Waiting seems quiet,
but structurally it is resistance.
It is not absence of action—
it is presence being postponed.
Waiting arises when what is
is not enough—
and what might come
is clung to as relief.
It is not patience.
It is containment.
Waiting ends not when something arrives—
but when arrival is no longer required.
