Overstaying

It's said that if you're patient and you slowly heat the coils

A frog inside a pot won't know it's hot until it boils.

Am I a frog? Enthusiasm becomes duty and indifference.

I don't react when reluctance becomes truculence.

There's more to the world than wives' tales and proverbs,

and what's more, frogs, as most animals, have nerves.

I, too, can tell when I'm fed up with this.

I just rarely care enough to notice.