mechanical heart

it ticks and tocks and counts

relentless

every death by abacus

 

solitude or suicide

noted – ticked and tocked

relentlessly

the unpaid cost of every

life unopened

 

shoved beneath

a shabby sofa hidden

in the broken stuff

papers burned

in the yard

on the balcony

 

unaffected it continues

counting tick-tock

death

relentless

 

 

art: Kurtssingh on DeviantArt