Notable those years of expectation.
Ten, twenty, thirty years; I could go on…
They arrive with hope and with elation.

Feathered, bearing balloons, excitation
And yet it was evanescent, foregone.
Notable those years of expectation.

Was the wait all merely connotation?
This and that and the other and so on?
They arrived with hope and with elation.

Round, whole and soft, years of digitation-
What of when twenty eight or six are done?
Notable those years of expectation.

They leave with little felicitation,
Less important, little remarked upon.
They arrived with hope and with elation.

Fifty eight is no less a citation
Of what could be and what is gone…
Notable those years of expectation.
Now arrives with hope and with elation.