Give Me Patience

Oh, please, give me patience,
As soon as possible,
To get me through my day.
Or a steady cadence,
If that’s impossible,
To hold boredom at bay.

What’s next, I seem to ask,
With too much frequency,
As the hours slowly pass.
I hate to end a task,
Fighting delinquency
And my idle morass.

Endless life of leisure,
Unkind backhanded curse,
Appears to be my doom.
Here to get my pleasure,
Writing a silly verse,
And never leave this room.