by Madeline Greet

Created on: January 03, 2009

Daily Struggle: Mocking Time

What a life, that of clocks,

Never a shift in the sound of their thoughts,

Ticking and tocking for tardies to hear,

Over and over, the grinding of gears.

And I trapped within.

The ticking may falter, but time it will not,

From room into room, and clock into clock,

Ticking and tocking its too-stable pulse,

Never disturbed by the beat of the house.

And I trapped within.

Ticking and tocking, the clock goes on still,

Proud little arms, with terrible will.

But ticking and tocking may drive insane,

Those who do wish to live not in vain.

Daily struggle.

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