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Laughing Clocks

November 12, 2022
By PsychoSeal17 GOLD, Hartland, Wisconsin
PsychoSeal17 GOLD, Hartland, Wisconsin
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Favorite Quote:
"Lyrics that mean nothing, we were gifted with thought" -Holding onto you, 21 pilots.


The deceitful clocks are laughing at me.

Disturbing smiles creep on every blank face.

Dancing on my hands as I sip tea,

I run through time to avoid lifeless space.


I’m the past thinking about the future.

Time crumbles with all fugacious minutes.

Undreampt tears in timelines need a suture.

My eyes widen observing red digits.


Ticking voices fill my once empty head.

You’re now as old as you have ever been.

Time is an illusion I think in dread.

I walk the paths of age with wrinkled skin.


In the moment I take a heavy breath,

And blow out the candles running from death.


The author's comments:

This poem is about people who fear death on their birthdays. Instead of living in the moment, they are distracted by their fear of time.


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on Nov. 30 2022 at 4:27 pm
RipleyFallz SILVER, Olyphant, Pennsylvania
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Favorite Quote:
The villian will always be the villian if the hero tells the story.

this is truly phenomenal

on Nov. 16 2022 at 11:34 am
CreativeOwl11, Hartland, Wisconsin
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I like the theme about time!