It has been such a very, very long time now ...

Since I could just focus on the words and not how 

They were going to fall as the thoughts hit screen

Which has so frazzled nerves, making me want to scream



Concern about how others would view my thoughts & react

Inhibited me from voicing them after a while, so I packed

It all in - and focused on making my very own web page

But then got so involved in computer language, I aged



Practically overnight as all of my concerns changed hue

And gave me a whole new set of priorities to make me blue

Left me wanting desperately to just focus on the words

I was even willing to get involved in silliness to be heard



But somehow - none of it made any more sense at all ...

For the longer I abstained, the more the past seemed cruel

And so I held off until the very right and proper time

Which has now happened, and so I'm obliged - to prime ...



- Tristram