delays in living and dying

What is waiting to live
except not being alive
Day after day,
week after  week
then month after month
until it is year after year
life starts next year
it starts next month
it starts tomorrow
or it already started
and tomorrow it ends
so the price of waiting
to live is to be dead
how long is too long to wait
for confirmation
of the thing you already have
if we can't speed up living
perhaps we should put off dying
if I ask you to wait for it
to wait for me to live
and if all you do is wait
death has already arrived
why don't I ask you to wait
why don't I tell you
what you want to hear
I can call you darling
and you can call me death