Wisdom Yields Patience

Wisdom yields patience. It is to one's glory to overlook an offence. ~ Proverbs 19:10-12  (Note of reminder in workplace)

Wisdom and patience.
A connection exists,
but which comes first?
What is patience?
Accepting or tolerating
delay, trouble, suffering
without anger or distress?
And wisdom? Just being wise?
I thought patience grew wisdom...
but that's like wanting willpower to bud,
then bloom, then grow
from sterile soil, from diseased roots,
from death itself in a desperate soul.
Wisdom comes easier, more naturally,
not needing absent assets. Wise,
transplanted, grafted from a power
external, more able. Gifted with wisdom,
patience finds nourishment, sustenance.
Patience creeps, setting down roots,
grabbing hold, freeing diseased people
to look up, not down, to see good granted
sufficient to stroll past foolishness, hurtfulness,
able to look up to the good, the affirming —
not down at slights.