Immemorial

By Scarrzz

A Great Golden Pendulum slices relentlessly through the emptiness
Carving its well worn path from this side of nothing
To that side of nothing
 
Tic . . .     Toc . . .     Tic . . .     Toc . . .     Tic . . .     Toc . . .     
 
Time
That most precious of commodities
Means so little when there is no life to fill it
 
Tic . . .     Toc . . .     Tic . . .     Toc . . .     Tic . . .     Toc . . .     
 
Still the inexorable march from side to side continues
Dragging me forward into the darkness of another night
 
Hazy memories of a brighter world begin to play
Across the flat affect of my face
Until I crush them with tiny spinning gears
 
Tic . . .     Toc . . .     Tic . . .     Toc . . .     Tic . . .     Toc . . .     
 
I cannot feel my hands
They will not seem to release their grip on the past

The lesser points to Nine and the other points to Six
Unmoving
As the day began, so has the night fallen
 
Meaningless
 
Tic . . .     Toc . . .     Tic . . .     Toc . . .     Tic . . .     Toc . . .     
 
I stand here resolute, with the appearance of relevance
Mocked by the never changing reflections
In my slowly beating heart
 
My innerworkings are wound and wounded
By Unconditional Love
From which there is but one release
And time itself will not suffice
 
Tic . . .     Toc . . .     Tic . . .     Toc . . .     Tic . . .     Toc . . .      
 
Perhaps if there were some purpose to this broken edifice,
Some benefit to be gained by my lonely vigil
The numbness would become bearable
And my face might even smile
 
But the chimes no longer sing
 
Again, Meaningless
For there is no one to sing to
And the only one that would comprehend their gifts
Does not care to listen
 
 
 
 

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© 2009 Scarrzz
Published on Saturday, July 9, 2022.     Filed under: "Depressed" and "Poetry"
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  • A former member wrote: very touching piece of work

  • A former member wrote: very touching piece of work

  • unspeakable truth On Saturday, September 25, 2010, unspeakable truth (100)By person wrote:

    But time doesn?t tic without our presence, does it? Fascinating piece... Scholar

  • A former member wrote: Interesting.... see now I always pictured unconditional love as being eternal.... and I wouldn't say that is timeless, but rather something that is time itself... I guess in a spiritual sense, where time is all we are guaranteed... that and it's end....... hmmm. I think that one way to understand one's relation to his or her time... is the way they perceive it, or maybe the perspective they bring to it... does one look forward.... or does one look backward? Does one perspective hold sway over the other? Does one get lost in a series of nows without dwelling on the next or the last? Interesting stuff here mate. Scholar

  • Scarrzz On Tuesday, July 28, 2009, Scarrzz (238)By person wrote:

    Thanks again, I toyed with the idea of calling it, "Dragged Forward Looking Back." Scholar

  • A former member wrote: *awed* I know that feeling, the only song you have to give, waiting on a wire.d li[n]e. and only getting silnce for your show, an empty space where a crowd should be, that dreary crowd of one. and you only sing for the mice. yeah i know that feeling *huggles* i must be ageless as well Scholar


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