For so long now
I’ve nourished a thought
too distraught
to relay
or betray
with myself
what ought not be
so revealing
and if that thought
remains dominant
I’ll be despondent
in the moods of my nature
the nomenclature of things
are so redundant
just a bushel of laughs
passel of tears
a tisk
task
batch of fears
some miles of glory
and a string of years
© Rothya James Patterson