I suppose resilience
is me standing here reading
poetry,
looking around
for lightning
and then buying
time
which I know
to be scarce.

Someone else
in my place
would have been destroyed
by now,
if it meant a returning
back to zero
when all hope did once bud
like flowers
in late spring
just a month ago.

The line
for the interview
hasn’t moved
from this
exit door.

I have to believe
all these fools
in front
of me
must not know
I was
called. 
 

Selected byRaymond Huffman
Obed Ladiny

Obed Ladiny's poems have appeared in Red Fez, In Between Hangovers, Torrid Literature Journal, Open Arts Forum, and more. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.