Marking Time!

Marking Time

Good morning my world
Does anyone else hate that ticking sound
Of a clock, like a bomb waiting to go off
The old boy just bought one of those
Ghastly tick-toking clocks
How I hate that tick-toking sound
Banished it must be to the depths of the drawer
Marking time!
Playing with my mind my senses that sound
Driving me spare that tick-toking!
In the darkness of my nights
When sleep eludes me, unable to sleep.
& playing games with my mind
Words stretching before me,
In the darkness of my nights
When sleep I cannot I stretch over to him.
When sleep eludes me!
In a perpetual motion my nights
On this night of nights
Rigorously keeping time:
Please stop time in your tracks won't you
Your driving me spare with your tick-toking
For he'll be gone in the morning
Before dawn's rushes in
Leaving me in despair
We have nothing but this one night
To experience our love together
Just this one time;
But your tick-toking
Reminding me that in time
Inconsolable sorrow within me my mind
Won't you contain time in your tracks
On this night of nights between now
& infinity let time stand still!
On this perpetual, night of nights
For he'll be gone forever in the morning
Before dawn rushes in
Your driving me spare with your tick-toking
Won't you, contain time in your hands;
For he's the light the stellar in my skies
From me, he'll be gone & I'll die;
Life without him is impossible will be
Banished must be your infernal sound
Or he'll be gone forever;
For he's the stellar, scintillating
In the darkness of my skies
Before the rising sun rushes in
Reaching for that star
Scintillating in my darkest firmament
If in your hands contain, you can not time
On such a night as this.
I'll know I'll die:

                     By Connie James