Oh wondrous time!
How fickle your chime.
With the slow of your tick tock tick tock,
As I watch the hands of your clock.

The way you seem to be frozen in place,
whenever I gaze into your flawless flat face.
Even now as I sit in class,
I wait for you, but you do not pass.

But then how swiftly away you sweep,
when in a moment I long to keep.
Moments past are forever lost.
Wishing you away has a cost.

My childhood vanishes with careless days.
Whisked to the past, you leave only a haze.
Now as my last school year beckons,
You leave me wishing for more seconds.

Instants of my life stolen, to appease your hunger
For as I age, you only become younger.
When you rip the final beat from my heart
On that day, with you I must depart.