Hickory Dickory Dock
the mouse ran round the clock

or did it?

Did the mouse run round the clock or is that what it wanted you to believe?
That a mouse ran around the timepiece indeed.
Creating this grand illusion upon which you praise it with a song.
Hoping for once you wouldn't think wrong.
So for once it thought it just wouldn't try,
And instead came up with the masterful lie.
And pulled it off like a criminal scheme.
And now rests forever in an eternal ticking theme.
But what if, instead, it was all for you?
The mouse was just shielding you from the truth.
So you wouldn't see that time was ticking away
in a endlessly constant, rapid pace.
Would you really care if that was all a lie?
After all, it was only in your mind.