Tick Tock

Time we can't escape it
Following us through the day,
Watching us in our sleep
Tick tock, tick tock
A face stares up at us
Its long hands slowly moving to the beat
Never stopping to rest
Tick tock, tick tock
Standing in the distance by itself
It continues to plod along
Doesn’t stop for coffee, doesn’t stop for defeat
Doesn’t stop for triumph, doesn’t stop for love
So many of them in the world,
But yet a word is never spoken
Abused at times of chaos and
Thanked at times of need.
A hidden little object
That our world has always feared.
But it stays with us from the moment we are born.
Tick tock, tick tock
And only to cease when our final breath is drawn.
Tick tock, tick tock.
A stamp on all our messages
Indicted into our soul
It’s trying its best to be helpful
Even when its day is done
Tick tock, tick tock,
Tick tock, tick...