CHAINS OF TIMING

Just a poem....against well accepted norms about TIME

CHAINS OF TIMING

 

My clock is my ruler

It determines what I should do

When should I go

When should I come

When should I eat

When should I tweet

When should I pray

When should I play.

 

Clock chains me

It startles me

It warns me

It spurns me

It churns me

It drives me mad

With it’s never ending deadlines.

 

Clock mocks

At my sense of freedom

It scorns

At my longing for eternal

It even reminds

At times, of a death waiting for me.

 

One day I killed it.

Stopped its ticking

Washed off its existence

From the rooms of my brain

That was stacked once

With dos and don’ts

From my stoic clock’s

Menacing long and short hands.

 

I got back my freedom

Got back my longing for eternity

Got back my belief in deathlessness

Got back my faith in peace

Got back my harmony with nature’s pace

Got back my courage in my own pace

 

So unreal a spook was it!!

That my teachers and parents

Taught me to adore and be afraid of

So unreal witch was it!!!!

That my mentors and priests

Taught me to substitute it for pelf

So unreal fable was it!!!

That my exams and text books

Hailed as something akin to God

 

Today I am the king of my castle

Today I will decide

When to wake up

When to usher sun

When to usher moon

When to chase away stars..

From my colorful day dreams

 

I am the king of my castle

Till its long and short hands

Dare to move in collusion

With its second hand

And start tick ticking once again 

Framing my life in chains of timing.

 

 

Reviews

[The Analog Kid]

Real good.

"Clock mocks
At my sense of freedom
It scorns
At my longing for eternal
It even reminds
At times, of a death waiting for me."

This is a tried and true theme, but you did it so well. I like this one a lot. Going to favorites...

[Huggy Bear]

Poem is well written. Good Job:)

[the_stoic]

a small typo .. it should be 'self' instead of 'pelf' i guess ...

nice theme to write on .. ah ! fed up of this trecherous entity called time .. the ending was quite good !

P.S. - i have started loathing my wrist watch after reading this :D

[Ed Hart]

it's part of the "rendering unto Cesar" business, until, of course, it isn't