Spiral

The train of thought can skid off track sometimes.

Tick tock tick tock.

Do your work.

If you don’t do your work, you won’t get paid.

If you don’t get paid, you can’t buy food

And if you can’t buy food you won’t eat.

If you don’t eat -- well, you never do anyway, do you?

But eventually you will wither away.

If you don’t do your work, you will wither away.

Do your work.

Tick tock tick tock.

Call them back.

If you don’t call them back, they won’t talk to you.

If they don’t talk to you, you won’t be friends.

If you aren’t friends, you’ll be alone.

If you’re alone, you’ll think.

If you think, you’ll do something stupid.

If you do something stupid, you’ll fly away.

If you don’t call them back, you will fly away.

Call them back.

Tick tock tick tock.

Get out of bed.

If you don’t get out of bed, you won’t get out of bed the next day.

If you don’t get out of bed the next day, the cat will be hungry and you won’t feed her.

If the cat is hungry and you won’t feed her, the cat will starve.

If the cat starves, the cat will disappear.

If the cat disappears, who’s to say you won’t, eventually?

If you disappear, it’s your own fault, right?

If only you had gotten out of bed.

Tick tock tick tock.

Author's Note

idk if this even counts as a poem but hey it's what fit the best