Anticipation versus expectation

a comparison:

Anticipation promotes

a more readied environment,

has pronounced claims

towards immediacy,

frequently asserts an intimacy

of urgency,

implies an active timeline

towards exposure,

demonstrates a sense of being

an active third party

yet in spectatorship,

builds an oncoming

towards participation

which justifies

an occasional unwarranted response.

Anticipation has a formalized

first person claim

which assumes itself

soon to be involved

and a self-permission

to feel included.

Anticipation proposes itself

into a response,

summons itself

as if from a preordained agreement.

Anticipation harbors an enthusiasm

as its medium,

feels for a shared theme with others.

Anticipation is rightly so

by its presence.

It is a simpler explanation

to bystanders

and tends towards a brighter view.

While expectation

is steeped in subtlety and cues,

and may include no reaction

as a response.

It may be only a private construction

from within.

It has a prominent internal audience

as a major aspect.

Expectation has an intimacy

interpreting for itself

as it has an implicit contract

in unsaid-ness

that looks to details

in an unfolding manner.

It has story

that supports its unexposed cause

while it defends itself

with a long deep history.

Expectation may reach no climax

or celebration.

It may continue a sequence

towards a next expectation

as usually it is not a stand-alone

or pinnacle result.

There is an immediacy

of quiet emotion at hand

for it lives more as a completion

than an event.

Expectation can have a weave

of construction as its means.

It can have multiple accounts

to what it says and does.

Expectation has its privacy

as a perception

that may not even be formally shared.

I am anticipating a next expectation.

I am expecting a next anticipation.

Rock, paper, scissors . . .