Patience Perhaps

As I lay on the hammock with my headphones plugged in, and looking up I saw that I was surrounded with tall palm trees. Tall trees that bore dried up leaves, struggling to breathe. 

Radiating immense heat and light, the sun seemed to be making things a bit too bright. And I lay there drenched in sweat from head to toe. 

My Gibson lay in the dried up grass beneath me, alone, and waiting to be played. 

My book seemed to be placed upside-down, waiting to be opened and read and a plate of food stared at me, waiting to be had. 

“How I would love a tall, Ice-cold glass of lemonade…”, I thought to myself. 

The scorching heat of the sun had made it impossible for me to strum, eat or even fall asleep. It had brought this lethargy upon me. 

My eyes became uneasy and my mind weary. Or was it the other way around? 

“Could it snow right now? Could the clouds just erupt or the thunder just strike?” 

The ever-rising glare of the morning star seemed to have had a severely damaging impact on my memory and thought process. Not that there was much to think about anyway. 

I was surprised that the sharp rays could break through the thick cover of the palm trees, even though the leaves were dry, I figured they would at least be some kind of a shed. But clearly I was proven wrong. 

The rays were a force to reckon with. The sun was a fighter, nature’s warrior, trained never to give up. It would battle it out till the end. 

My blood boiled, I felt as if my veins were about to implode. 

“Is there no end to this? Can’t I simply escape?” 

I couldn’t go inside the house, I had been locked out.There was only one option left. I had to indeed wait it out. 

There was no escaping the wrath and fury of the morning star. 

All I could do was to bear the pain. For maybe this is a lesson in life which I needed to learn. A lesson of Patience perhaps?...And there was only one way to learn it. 

The hard way. The way we all dread. 

I could only do but wait, wait till my savior, the moon or the evening would come. 

Because then the sun would have to set and I, well I would be relieved of this pain I felt.