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The ticking clock,

The hours falling in time

Moving in currents feeling so sublime

As the World seemed to whisper

A silent rhyme.

The song plays again,

A sad old tune,

Of love long lost

As I sit near the moon

She holds me tight

I close my eyes

And feel the drumming beat

As the stars align like an army fleet.

I hear it again,

The melody chiming in my ear

The rhyming now coming so clear

Humming so sweet

Her voice comes together

And makes my soul complete

She takes me to distant lands

Somewhere far away

Where the sun don't shine

And the kids don't come to play

She begs me not to leave

I will always stay

Holding me prisoner

In this pendulum of emotion

She and I,

Are what set the world in motion

Elsie Alvarez