Time Keeper

TIME KEEPER Early morning Late p.m. These could be thankful periods of silence The world drowsy Or still asleep And my teeming head hopefully emptied out What marvelous devolvings might be refreshed When one is in a nothing state The clatter of dreams and strivings finally settled on the kitchen floor I would borrow absence from my cat He sits on the window sill head on paws serene aggravating! Yes so apparently empty he I am sure isn’t aware of the ticking The tick tick ticking of my large kitchen clock To my sensitive awareness like hail stones on a flat tin roof Yes! really a clack clack horrible clacking And my cat? Hah! What is time to him? Zip! Nada! This wretched inflicting of time on the eternal Dave Austin