"Time" (12th grade)

Time passes
as if it were
crawling,
trudging
along in
a mud of
seconds,
minutes.

Time races by
on
Mercury wings
of hours,
days,
weeks,
months,
and
years.

The hands
of the clock
slide by
as the
second hand
keeps ticking, ticking,
setting the tune
for the passage of
time.