With Great Anticipation

I will come and join you

at the end of the week

and then we’ll catch up

and I’ll find out

what’s been going on with you

since our last encounter –

and that will be good, but

even more I want to know

what will happen next,

your future, how you will

navigate your crises

at work and home, and whether

you ever will meet that great love

we're all waiting for,

to whom you have come so close 

it seemed, once or twice,
only to discover

that Whoever decides these things 
had other plans,

such as death, betrayal ...

which of course

keeps you on our screens

week after week

as we agonise with you

and watch you grow,

both longing for and dreading

the final dénouement.