11-25-2022, 11:22 PM
Piecework of time
bound to one wrist
a curious manacle
needs no twin
to bind me to fate.
I take it off,
an illusory act
of liberation,
but there’s no celebration
for I still hear its tick.
There is no tock
only the click
of Death’s smile
as I struggle to creep
past myself into sleep.
bound to one wrist
a curious manacle
needs no twin
to bind me to fate.
I take it off,
an illusory act
of liberation,
but there’s no celebration
for I still hear its tick.
There is no tock
only the click
of Death’s smile
as I struggle to creep
past myself into sleep.