Sonnet 2:17 AM
By David Jamie

Evaporating ticks from a dissolving clock,
 
whose second’s sting my oscillating eyes.
 
‘Will she come, or will she not?’
 
my pendulous heart, seeks quiescence!
 
Another cigarette; an apparition to reflect,
 
a wistful genie as elusive as time.
 
So easy to remember, yet so hard to forget,
 
impatiently; caressing, a love divine...
 
But now there is no rhythm to life’s melody;
 
no flame to guide me from this dark!
 
Your whispered name’s scythed, incessantly…
 
…with the hollow ticks from my wooden heart!
 
Wreath’s of smoke, and the scattering of ashes.
 
Swept, in a world, where they empty, all, the old, forgotten, hourglasses...
 

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