Worth the Wait

How inadequate it would be
for me to say
you have been well worth the wait.
Human beings feel this
loneliness bone-deep, a great hunger
a yearning to feel
the greatest experience, the right
mating of body and heart.

America’s Greatest Promise

You are thrilled by
America's greatest promise
of absolute good.
Lured by movies,
chewed up like a fall guy,
only to be conned
in Hollywood plot.