39 MINUTES

39 MINUTES I’m trapped down here, with no way out It’s the end with thirtynine minutes to go Showing on a timebomb that I have found And it has such an irritating ticking sound Yet it seems my time is still passing so slow But nobody here to tell me what it’s about I can’t get that old movie out of my mind Thirty nine steps and the Elizabeth Tower That was also a bomb, as I seem to recall And pre-war espionage at the end of it all In my situation I’ve only got half an hour There’s not much I can do, I am resigned Some have quoted that life can be a But it appears that either way I’m doomed Although there’s only thirteen minutes left My fingers so cold and stiff, no longer deft It couldn’t be disarmed, someone assumed But wait, I’ve just discovered the off switch