Just Look At the Time

hands and sands ticks and tocks drips and drops clips and clops pendulum swings peals and chimes lights and blinks hex and binary digital displays star gazing for echos from space watching shadows pass on sun-dials counting atomic hums all clock watching is fraught to fail we can never keep up for even the matter of time is mortal hands fall off, clocks, ticks and tocks get old and stop batteries run out time's fate is immortal ours is time-dependent it's just a matter of time just look at the time, now!