The Cheap Plastic Clock
Tick-Tock.. no more like Click-Tut
The cheap plastic clock disapprovingly cuts
through minutes and hours, mornings and days
A relentless reminder of time running away.
Only heard when no one else is around
how much life has passed since I last noticed your sound
Quiet enough to forget, loud enough to distract
the notion of "forever" your persistence attacks.
All the schools, jobs and places you've ever been
all of the faces you've ever seen
all go on without you whilst listening to this clock
an intruding reminder of time you can't restock.
Hearing time being lost I find very menacing
and I know it is impossible for me to do everything
but it serves to remember time eventually stops
I think I will keep the cheap plastic clock.
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