Waiting Game

The interval between your question
.......... and my answer-the pause
that coolly ponders deviance of inquiry
..........like a suspicious mouse
sniffing cheese in the jaws of a mousetrap.

I think of days when my foot dangled
..........from a gaping lower lip
as I answered the obvious only to be snared
..........in the naiveté of my own ineptitude.

Today I wait, as you- a noisy impatient spider
..........dangle from a thread in your web
demanding a response that might not, just might not, if
.......... I hold my tongue, ever come.