Tick-tock

Time...

What is it?

This ethereal surface

on which we spill

spectacular failure

and humble triumph

Tick-tock...

Time,
a sequence of heartbeats

and thoughts
and impulse
 

Tick-tock

It whispers its passage

down transient corridors

to the unknown...

Tick-tock...

...until infinite eternity

unshod by half-breaths

and stolen moments
and the ticking
of forever

© Janet Martin