tick tock

tick tock tick tock tikkety tikkety tikkety tock

Time gathers pace
while I while away the day
measuring time not in seconds
but in thoughts,
feelings
and fresh questions
laboriously extracted from the cosmos

I snowball through the day
amassing a wealth
of alleys and avenues,
trains of thought ready for probing

tick tick tick tick tikkety tikkety tick tick

Hour after hour
I spend hunting reason
and documenting my forays into the philosophical
in verse and line

Putting to rhythm and rhyme
questions pondered
arguments argued
and emotions evoked

tikkety tikkety tikkety tch...

After hours on end
thinking these thoughts
I tend to break,
to snap,
to positively lose it

When I've calmed down,
I take a seat in the sun
and...

...tick...