Wait

"Oh, little one, I know you've been tired for a long long time,
And oh, little one, I ain't been around for a little while;
But when you see me, wait."
                                       St. Vincent, "Strange Mercy"

"God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life."
                                       Neutral Milk Hotel, "Two-Headed Boy, Part Two"

Man, since the expulsion, has toiled in the desert. Age upon age looking into the darkness, knowing himself only through night emissions. Beyond the faint lights arriving in dreams and visions, there is for him nothing.

In those moments, we rest, watching the swift hound cross the field, returning in triumph. A moment of joy we may hold forever. Some who succeed name this triumph after the antagonist of an old story.

Plotinus and The Invisibles

"We should be spectators of murders, and all deaths, and the takings and sackings of cities, as if they were on the stages of theatres, all changes of scenery and costume and acted wailings and weepings...

But the actors [in the universal drama] have something extra, in that they act in a greater space than that within the limits of the stage, and the author makes them the masters of the All...

...part of the author, and an author who foreknew what they were going to say, so that he might in this way be able to bring the rest of the play and the consequences of their interventions into a coherent whole." 

                                                                            Plotinus, Ennead III.2