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KEEPING TIME

The **** crows high into the morning sky

Harsh songs from my useless alarm can make me die

 

Honks of early morning blue & white buses eat my sleep

No time,sleep hasn't been this deep

 

And to myself I solemnly recite

You still got plenty of time to do what's right

 

To get dressed, it takes you just a minute

And seconds to lace your shoe,I mean it

 

I clutch more tighter to my cold pillow

Turning left right as I wallow

 

Gently savouring the bliss of my dream

Floating like a piece of paper on stream

 

No pleasure can come this close

I wish time froze as I doze

 

Leaving this bed is an Herculean task

How does my rest hurt the world, i ask

 

My mama used to quote these lines

Make hay while the sun shines

 

And time waits for no man she said

He who invented those proverbs must have been dead

 

Dear mum, I beg to disagree

It's my world and I'm young and free

 

The clock is just a creation with 24hours

24 isn't enough,we need a clock of ours

 

And I blame that device for my life ills

Verily verily, the clock kills

 

I lost a big contract

Eye ***** dilate,wrinkles contract

 

Carried over some courses

Mr. Clock was the head of the causes

 

I was like Y me?like the end of rhyme

Just because I couldn't keep time

 

Those 3 evil hands combine to make me late

But since I was born,I'm yet to be late

 

I didn't know the clock from Adam

Pardon me if I'm late Oga and Madam

 

As I go on grudgingly living my life

Not like a time keeper that makes time his wife

 

I know that keeping time is my nemesis

Right from the very genesis

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Written by
chinweike-david-okwu
Nigerian
Published
Jul 2, 2013
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