By any other name

"Patience." they say.

How long is patience patience before it becomes something else?

An hour? Two hours? Three hours? A day? A week?

Are there any other determining factors?

Like does it matter if you are waiting for love, or money?

And what does it turn into when it is no longer patience?

A fool's errand? A lost cause?

Does the feeling change it, or the time, or the reason?

Patience. They say it comes from the Latin word for suffering.

It certainly is suffering for me.

An open wound where terrible thoughts grow like bacteria

Until it scabs over crusty and hard over something that started out sweet and soft.