Patience

Have you any patience?
For I know a task that will surely do the trick.
Grow a tomato.
Not the type you buy ripe at Vons,
or the 3' plant from Home Depot.
Grow a tomato from seed.
It takes all the patience in the world
to wait fro the tiny seedlings to emerge and then
pick the stoutest to transplant
into the earth.
Then you must water is generously
at least twice a week until yellow blossoms appear
at the tips of the green
weeks later, little pea like tomatoes develop in the shriveled blooms.
They grow steadily until you begin to imagine they've turned red.
But not until the month of July are they ready,
nearly three months after you'd sown the seed.
The whole length of June, I am daily examining their hue.
Yes, to grow a tomato takes a world of patience.