Timekeeping

Timekeeping

We wear a watch, we watch the clock
but never keep one tick nor tock
The minutes pass, a year is gone.
We may keep time but time moves on.

It never stops to catch its breath
but pulls us onwards into death.
The clock won’t give one second back;
we ride on trains with finite track

and yet we spend our precious days
in work and worry and malaise.
Reader, friend, you must have fun!
Everybody, old and young,

break free from watching clocks at last!
Live now, before your future’s passed!
Live life right now or all you’ll get’s
a nice gold watch and then, regrets.