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Sonnet-Ticking Tocking

Jamie-May Minjie

Jun 10, 2024

Earth is rotating slower—If the clock

Stays the same, we’d be rushing into tomorrow

The Earth, not a perfect timekeeper, father

Of our untimely fate, shadows of sundials’s

Gnomon, movement of the mountainous faith

In this war we fight, some think they will never

Die—Some think they have already many

Times—The truth lies in the context, yet we’re

Straining towards the Stars, chanting syllabuses

In pairs, like heartbeats, matching with each other

Like Castor and Pollux, a Poet turned

The Twin, from Trinity to Know-It-All

Banning one another’s numeral systems, at

Tower of Babel, we sing English lullabies


 

Authors Website: https://www.jamiemayminjie.com/

Photo Credits: https://www.instagram.com/valentinemartinduchene?igsh=emFzb3VxMW9rajV4


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