Sunday, 27 August 2023

The pendulum stops

 


Swings to the left with a click.

To the right with a clop,

like a horse trotting its galloping tick tock.

The pendulum rocks to and fro.

From where we've been,

the clock sounds

its constant steady cadent,

to where we go.

 

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.

Each one, a hand on deaths door,

Knocking. Each one a hand pounding,

the sounding of a starters gun.

Waiting for the skeletal hand to answer.

One day he will for sure.

We should probably

stop the clocks and run,

but then, stopping the clocks

would bring a fate worse than death...

 

Tickkk. The clock sticks

for a beat. The world shivers.

Knowing that forever is in retreat,

that whenever is on her knees,

and someday is sat expecting the end

at anytime it pleases.

 

The shimmery sight which greets eyes,

that look upon this misty street,

would bring fear to their hearts.

If at that second the clock

didn’t tock once more.

Making the sight depart,

before it had the chance,

to tear the world apart at its core.

 

A stopped clock causes the world

to shimmer, fade and fizzle.

Shiver and quiver.

A stopped clock unleashes terror,

the likes of which

can't be written on paper.

 

The armies of the unmoved hand,

the memory erasing

hounds of chronology,

with fangs that fast forward

and rewind at the very same time.

It brings the unconscious monstrosities,

hidden deep within the cracks of time.

Where they have existed

ever since the cracks were formed,

on the very morning

when time first dawned.

 

 

 


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