Future + Tense

Still stuck on this idea of tense changes within lines. Line 1 is split between Future tense / Past tense - then Line 2 is present tense with a very active motion. I keep scrawling tidbits around it. I also absolutely love the romantic idea of Future Perfect Continuous tense. That surely what is coming will be perfect. If it isn’t and if we have to ask what is coming next, then surely the future will be perfect again forever.

Tense in Future Perfect Continuous

you can wait me out
as I’ve weighed those before you
and I will watch your outcomes
you bearing burden or reprieve

you can sing a past tune
as I’ve heard your chorus before
and patient stand solace
you humming daylight away

you can count the hour hand
as I trace this confine with you
and cannot take escape
you hold us both, baited and waiting

— okay, sort of not the cute part of future perfect continuous I mentioned above… maybe should focus more on that.

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