toast

after waiting and sitting, the future
comes down and addresses the participant:
it is time to go

then its a room of people who don't
know each other really who
made a pact with themselves to change
the way they have proceeded
the mistakes we have made and want
to change nervously looking like
they don't belong but here they are

and they begin a routine that will
lift them into the world above, just one
level out of obscurity and into upper
management that seems so golden and holds
such promise that is really merely
another step and not what they really want
but its a step

and they make this committment and follow
the routine believing what they want to
believe and hope and pray and then
they are there wanting more