...the waiting place

lo saque de "Fracture", el lugar adonde llegas cuando ya se te cerraron todas las puertas visibles..

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked.
Some windows are lighted. But mostly they're darked.
A place you could sprain both you elbow and chin!
Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in?
How much can you lose? How much can you win?

And IF you go in, should you turn left or right...
or right-and-three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite?
Or go around back and sneak in from behind?
Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find,
for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.

You can get so confused
that you'll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place...

...for people just waiting.
Waiting for a train to go
or a bus to come, or a plane to go
or the mail to come, or the rain to go
or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow
or waiting around for a Yes or a No
or waiting for their hair to grow.
Everyone is just waiting.

Waiting for the fish to bite
or waiting for wind to fly a kite
or waiting around for Friday night
or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake
or a pot to boil, or a Better Break
or a sting of pearls, or a pair of pants
or a wig with curls, or Another Chance.
Everyone is just waiting.

The Waiting Place es un pedazo de Oh! the places you'll go! del Dr. Seuss, una historia para ninos....pero en fin, todos llevamos un nino adentro. Y si tienen curiosidad por el resto del poema, aqui les posteo el link Oh! the Places you'll go. Si lo leen creo que van a ver que, a su manera, es una descripcion bastante divertida y precisa de lo que cada quien ha recorrido en el tiempo que lleva aqui, pegado al mundo con el resto de nosotros.