Tick Tock Watch The Clock Poem by shannon wright

the future has become the present
the red circled day has arrived
all those months of waiting
tick tock watch the clock
I tried to hold on the best I could
but impatience pried my fingers off the prize
I lost sight of the passing time
and drowned in a sea of lost hours
I looked to you for understanding
but you were too busy studying your watch
to see that I was choking on time.
today is when the future begins
just not for us.
because time is lost to me forever.
I prayed away a fleeting past
and gave away the passing future.

1-15-07