In the dark time shows no sign forward backward or up the diligent digital clock tacitly ticks its tocks dark recedes to dark and then only to spare no light again; But suddenly some scowling scream ("Still survive!" he shouts at me, according to the OED.) shatters silence, tears the scene, rips a hole in the dark, serene, before any morning can be seen; Some hidden pigeon's cackling time revives, unshackling, though the day is yet to come, as if to offer a reminder to one: "keep to the fore, look to the sun."