Coughing

Weaker Than a Gerund

If you send a gerund,

On an errand,

It can convert cough into coughing,

It can convert sleep into sleeping.

In fact "inging",

While singing,

Is its "thinging".

But I on the errand,

Can not compete with a gerund,

I can convert cough into coughing,

But not while sleep, sleep, sleeping.

Coughing,

Not sleeping,

Is my "thinging".