Fellow Sufferer

			
Fellow sufferer, hold your breath
Those words you might utter,
Hear them first, don’t they sound like death?
Heed your cue, but stutter
Or give pause, give pause, sufferer,
Choke on those words; if you must, mutter
Sufferer, dear suffer,
The pulpit wrenches such sweet sounds
 
Sufferer — good suffer — pray, give heed—
You march headlong into unbreakable creed.