Patience
Patience - meaning Summary
Waiting for a Promised Voice
The poem describes a speaker’s calm, expectant patience in the face of another’s silence. The speaker will accept and contain the absence, comparing it to a quiet, watchful night, confident that dawn will come. When the beloved’s voice returns it will transform the speaker’s inner world: words become songs, melodies appear as flowers, and silence is replaced by abundant, life-giving sound. The tone is resolute and hopeful.
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