Self Poem by Nellie Isabelle Steward Cooper

Now I ask u.... can I tell myself what to think?

Think this way or that way... or the other way

Be somewhat odd or maybe just an ordinary

What...? ? ?

Don't I first have to think and then determine or discover?

What it is that I have thought! ... let me see...what was
I thinking? ? ?

Experience...yes that is.. what it is... I have finally made a
decision

Regarding the matter... we must first experience a thing to either like

Or dislike... or perhaps remain neutral and detached as much as possible

But what if I should think something else and avoid this or that experience

You have me confused now... it cannot be my fault....I only wish to think..

Should I be told what to think or make the decision on my own..

Or think I am thinking.... this or that... when some one else is thinking

For me? ? ? ...

How very kind of you to do so.. how very-very kind indeed! ! !