I wait for you still, wires 'round my fingers

Admittedly, I am beginning to suspect that Godot will show up before you do. Ah, but I can bide my time like no other. I can even waste, serve, save, make, and kill it, or take it off... just about the only thing I cannot do is turn back the hands of it. And so, despite your dawdling, we have none of it to lose; it is of the essence, in short supply, and most certainly not on our side. Nevertheless, we certainly have stood the test of it (going on twenty years now, we have a shelf life few can rival). But has it healed all wounds yet? Before it will tell, it will continue to fly, and I am left hoping that someday you will return just in the nick of it. Yes, I am well aware that we have historically had a whale of it, but it is only a matter of it before "certainly terrible" becomes "potentially lovely."