Time
It’s 1:55 in the morning.
Click clack.
Click clack.
Words upon a page.
Read them back.
Check the clock.
It’s 1:59 in the morning.
Click clack.
Click clack.
Put more words upon a page.
Read them back again.
Back from the start.
Check the clock.
It’s 1 in the morning.
Panic.
Was it ever 1:59?
Two comes after 1.
Was it 12:59?
I could’ve sworn it was 1:59.
Check the clock.
Check it again.
Again.
No, it’s saying 1:03.
Where did those three minutes go?
It was 1:59. I’m sure it was.
Wasn’t it?
The words on a page remain.
But the time has changed.
Ever flowing.
Always forward, never back.
Except the clocks.
They go back.
About this poem
As a sufferer of a traumatic brain injury that effects memory, I experienced a lapse when the clocks changed. This was the result.
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Written on October 28, 2023
Submitted by music-my-savior on October 29, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | aBBcbD aBBcexD axffghD eeaxhg xxab xb |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 639 |
Words | 160 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 7, 7, 6, 4, 2 |
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