Time
condensed
in a flask
terrifying
threatening
tantalising
unrelenting
compelling

fate hangs
on moving sand
who invented
this monstrous instrument?

imagine
the person
with death-sentence
counting
the second
waiting
for his ending

and this
I'm thinking
is more humanising
namely that
as soon as
the sentence
has been passed

the execution
should be carried out
the immediate following moment

who
tell me who
was the inventor
of this torturing instrument?