Tick Toking

Oh me, oh my, How time keeps tick-tocking by! Each year shaves pounds of days off the next Unburdened, it races on, faster and faster yet. We say, "Wasn't it yesterday or maybe just last week?" Or "where'd the time go?! Damn the thief!" Summer break was the Tortoise in our youth, but then we understood the stories moral and truth… That slow and steady… each minute is gone Until, in not so very long, the race is won. At the finish line, where loved ones wait…out of time… The Clock will stop, inevitable and sure, when the hare-swift Tic, is Toking no more.