Patience

Patience and Love agreed to meet at a set time and place; beneath the twenty-third tree in the olive orchard. Patience arrived promptly and waited. She checked her watch ever so often but still, there was no sign of Love.

Was it the twenty-third tree of the fifty-sixth? She wondered and decided to check, just in case. Asa she made her way over the fifty-sixth tree, Love arrived at the tree twenty-three where Patience was noticeably absent.

Love waited and waited before deciding he must have the wrong tree and perhaps it was another where they were suppose to meet.

Meanwhile, Patience has arrived at the fifty-sixth tree where Love was still nowhere to be seen.

Both begin to drift aimlessly around the olive orchard, almost meeting but never do.

Finally, Patience who was lost and feeling quite resigned,  found herself beneath the same tree where she began. She stood there for barely a minute when there was a tap on her shoulder. It was love.


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"Where are you?" She asked. "I have been searching all my life."
"Stop looking for me," Love replies, "and i will find you."


- Lang Leav