Seventeen Things

Seventeen things
I start at once,
and none seem to end,
they lay there
unfinished
for a year and a day,
For I’ve no time to spend.

Seventeen things
I start at once,
I never follow through,
my space clogged
with stories and pictures,
words and colours missing,
still something left to do.

Seventeen things
I start at once,
it never seems to end,
I can’t ever finish
what I start,
I still do it to this day,
Everything follows a