from birth we're allotted 
a given time 
wherein our lives tick 
to the clock's chime 

some shall stop curtly 
short of their days
whilst others carry on 
till the elderly frays 

time is our prevailing 
regulator 
of us it's the foremost 
dictator 

hands of a clock
circling around and by 
oh how the hours 
do unceasingly fly 

waste not a second
of precious existence 
ever keep stride with 
all of your persistence 

at anytime our clocks 
can deem an end 
and of us they'll so 
effectively suspend