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When I saw this photo it gave me a flash of inspiration. A mass of clocks all ticking at the same time. I think, as you grow older time seems to fly by; you sometimes find yourself wondering where the time goes…
The Passing of Time
Tick, tock, tick, tock
Faster and faster
Time flies by
In days
Then months
Into years….
*****
My head’s spinning
Where are we going?
Falling, further
And further…
*****
It’s another new day
A baby cries
Longing for its milk
Placated by it’s bottle
Morning chorus singing
As a child murmurs
Teddy dangling from its hand
Questioning, all the time
Noonday sun shines bright
A school child plays
Dreaming of home time
But has no answers
In the heat of the afternoon
A teenager fashionista
Self consciously
Struggles to understand
In the fading sun
An adult works hard
Earning a daily living
Hoping to achieve
Darkness surrounds us now
As an old person reads
Looking for inspiration
What is it all for?
*****
The tick, tock, tick, tock
Is it even faster and faster still….
Sadly, time
Slows for no one.
Poem by Nick
