Big Ben
Tick
Someone’s having children
Tick
Someone’s finding love
One
Descending
like a dove
Tick
Is all they've ever dreamed
of
Tick
Two
Are now united
Tick
While I am unrequited
Tick
Three
Moved from company to crowd
Tick
That sound is growing loud
As the hour approaches
Four
Another closing door
Tick
And time is spinning fast
Five
Ticks are tocking past
Every time I blink
Six
Teeter on the brink
Tick
Effervescent joy
May have sprung a leak
Seven
Perfect lines
One above and one beside
Tick
Eight
Another one escapes
I don’t begrudge a kinder
fate
Nine
Tails, a single lash
Tick
Another leaking ash
As they explode into
fulfillment
Ten
Times what they had
Tick
More bittersweet than sad
At your quick reversing
fortune
Eleven
The hour growing late
The desperate giving in to hate
But I alone will wait
For Twelve
A lifetime ticking past
Die is always for another
cast
Tick
And I shall always be the
last.
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