We sink into the harbor as thirsty ships drink from the horizon We are all asking Time to please stop telling us the season But it can never heed our warnings nor our reason A clock is a certain type of poem that never stops turning on itself For it takes a special kind of feeling to unlock the mechanism That makes man into a mechanic and not a lover And Cupid’s arrows seem to miss their mark a lot more often Men now have trouble grasping that their hands Are not just for taking but they may also be projections of their hearts And perhaps love-making is an art-form that we are all starting to lose So instead we destroy relationships faster than we can say, I do