falling star
in the corner sits a timepiece
wound so tight its about to
burst open sending time reeling
across the crammed full room
no one noticed how it got that way
too busy with their item-filled
days but now the ticking's
magnified and so's the fear
in their ears and eyes someone
set an alarm up and trepidation's
that it will go off in our lifetimes
and no one needs the wakeup call
anyway making us apprehensive
stars are falling down everywhere
in a corner sits a clock chock full
of all the time we
need to hold
closely closely closely
