the wait

I've been keeping pretty calm about this election, and even now in the last hours of it am still pretty calm.

But knowing that not long from now when the numbers are in, I could either feel great relief and cheer or immense dread and disappointment, is a strange mental state to be in. And knowing that even if the numbers turn out as I hope, there's still the worry of an attempted coup and violence, is also a strange state.
A nation of people, waiting.