- Non-Erotic Poetry
- The Pendulum
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The pendulum swings left, then right
Each tic and tock a parasite
That steals my time, gives nothing back
A lying aphrodisiac
The silent stealer takes its toll
Playing its deceiving role
Plying me with thoughts eternal
Haven’s peace or hell’s inferno
Lulled by its hypnotic swaying
Tic and tock is all it’s saying
Soul and body slowly aging
Life and death, a battle raging
Slowly I slip off to sleep
The shadow comes, what will it reap
Will those slowly turning gears
Steal what’s left of my life’s years
Will I waken in the morn
Or will my years remain unborn
Will the clock have won the war
Or will I wake to live some more
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