Where is There?

Waiting. Simply 

Waiting 

Old. Old. Country music 

Playing -

Waiting 

To board the giant metal thing 

Which will hurl me 

Into the air 

Press me back into 

My seat 

And force a silent 

Prayer

From

     The best 

Of us. 

There are no atheists 

In foxholes

Or during 

Takeoff 

     I'll bet

If I don't die 

Of boredom first

 -Death by 

      Waiting -

They -

The engineers 

And ticket takers 

Say 

These things are 

Safe 

More so than 

The cars

And the trucks 

Driven by 

     the half-drunk 

          Rest of us!

Rushing here and 

THERE -

There we are -

-are we there yet ?

They say 

We are -

Or should be -

I feel vaguely guilty -

For never knowing 

What that was 

Or who they are 

Or 

Where is there?