A Timely Death

I look at you and all I see is an hourglass

Each grain of sand in your skin that you show.

I kiss you and taste the face of a clock in pass,

Its rhythmic hands move over my body, one fast, one slow-

One less minuteOne more dayOne more second that asks me to stay

One less chime and I wind you up,

Your little tick tricks me to think it's enough.

They say, "Well you know you fell for a time bomb, you know that you chose a hard road."

I laugh at them, pity them as I say, "You would too, if you knew how it felt to explode."