Where am I to go from here

This prompt is putting my OCD in fear

Writing twenty lines removing eight

What will become of this poems fate

Why must my mathematical mind frenzy 

The coffee I drank is being lazy

How will I ever get through 

Number four is only two plus two 

A long way to travel 

My words may unravel 

But the prompts are mere suggestion 

This poem I choose a different direction 
C. Churchill