Wait a Little Longer

Irena Moon-Quitzau

November 26, 2023

I know you’ve heard me crying and so 

you must be confused when I ask you 

to wait a little longer

It’s not that I don’t want to see you 

and kiss your tiny wrinkly feet 

and smell your heaven scent

You see, in here you’re safe and we’re a team

A mighty one that can stare down the villains 

and conquer impossibility 

Soon we’ll have a lot of work to do 

And maybe you won’t like me as much on the outside

And I won’t always know how to soothe your cries 

So just for now

Please wait 

a little longer?

Irena Moon-Quitzau, long time Texas resident, recently relocated to Long Island. She is an artist, a poet, a teacher, and proud mother of 10 and Gigi of 5 going-on-6, all living in Texas. She grew up in France and came to the United States at 16. She has written poetry in Spanish, French, and English but has never submitted any of the poems until now. Most of her writing was destroyed in Hurricane Harvey in 2017 in Houston, Texas.