tick-tock-tick-tock

Old men should not teach
Memory and intelligence dimming
Through fractured thought to reach
Out to time's beginning
Eternity each day
Is time enough to learn
Each pattern and every way
Of seconds that burn
Away the hours
Of each singular visceral life
Falling into clinging years
And the hacking anxious cough
Whilst listening to the clock
Tick
Tock
Tick
Tock
Into eternity