Time Poem by Tapera Makadho

I sit on the shacky balcony of time
Entangled by the gossamer of its web
I count the tickling tinctures of its arm
I feel it's tentacles spreading to grope me
Like a fly, consumed in the intrigue

I sit in amazed, how I used to stalk the city
With my maverick look as I stroll by
So long since it has been, since my hair
Once shiny raven black has been combed
Now kinky and dusty of grey
As I walk past the shadows of time

I shudder and wonder how time travels
Like lightning it struck on my clock
And left an artifice on my buttocks,
Dimples waning away from once delicate hips
A fallen deck of cards, are now heaps

Time has taken a stroll on my teeth
I used to laugh to the glee of angels
Now I titter with a hand on the mouth
To cover the few cinders of iron
The last remnants of time in my mouth

When the curtains of time come down
And every will inside us gets void
The flesh shall scatter into ashes
Time shall tell and reign.