Chaos
He set the pendulum swinging,
this way and that, slow circle,
and then, betrayed, stepped back
out of our shadows of light.
We heard it: the soft tick
of that grandfather clock.
Time swung backwards and forth,
measuring the beats of the heart,
the rhythm of the pretend creations,
the patterns of our controlling nature.
And one single decision
turned the clock on its side,
its final tick a far greater Boom,
falling, falling, fallen.
Broken; that’s the location.
Chaos is our love now.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 474 |
Words | 84 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
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