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Time’s Ticking

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Haya A. Elmizwghi · February 2025



       A ticking time bomb                

Strapped to my neck                        
        
Dragging me down                                    

To the depths of the depths.                                            


                Which will kill me first,

                        The pressure, the bomb, or I,

                                   And does it even matter anyways?
    

When my time comes            

And I’m six feet under                    

Who’s going to remember                            
    
All I have said and have done?                                    


        I admire the human persistence to go on,

               As if hell isn’t nipping at our fingertips,

                       As if heaven isn’t a man-made myth.

We’re all sinners dressed as saints,                        

Waiting for our time to fly.                

And when that day comes,        

Our polyester wings will flail,    

Like Icarus, we’ll plummet and fall.