Tick Tock

Tick tock
Tick tock
The clock goes
My life passes by as I stare at this exam question
Trying to see what I should do with it but my mind is jumbled up
Tick tock
Tick tock
The clock goes
As I stare at this problem without a solution
My life passes by as the clock ticks
Tick tock
Tick tock
The sound in my head
As I watch the exam time run out
As I watch my hopes dry out
As I watch the sands of time decrease
What do I do now, do I rush the last few minutes
Or do I accept defeat
Tick tock
Tick tock
The clock goes
As I stare at this barricade without a weapon
Without a strategy to get to the other side
Tick tock
Tick tock
The clock goes
As I write this down knowing this is the only thing I’ll look back to & think not bad
This exam isn’t going well
But still the clock ticks as my fellow pupils type rapidly on their keyboards
Tick tock
Tick tock

Isn’t what I hear anymore
I am now focused on 30 students typing away as I pen this
The sound of the keyboard relates to my life
A lot of bangs & crashes then the silence…the long silence before the next button is to be pressed
Back to the tick tock, the clock scares me, time scares me
You don’t use it wisely, you’ll fall & crumble
It goes fast, it goes slow…time is something you can never control
It could run out today, it could run out tomorrow
You never know
Tick tock
Tick tock
As this exam drags on
Only 30 minutes to go
30 minutes till I can reflect
On what a disaster this has been
While I do that, the tick & the tock continue
Things end, things begin but the tick & the tock will always be there
The sands of time will never stop falling
The image pops into my head, did I ever have a rise because this is my fall
They say you must have risen to ever fall
So when did I rise
Was it in a past life
Imagine I was a king
Imagine I was known
Imagine I ruled the world
But now its my fall, in education anyway
So as the students type away
I penned one of my greatest written works
Tick tock
Tick tock
The clock goes on
One of the things I hate inspired me to write something I already love
The teachers walk by me thinking I did not attempt this exam
Experiences in life make me accept defeat
Defeat of tick tock, defeat of this fucked up exam that will judge my life
So this is a battle lost but I will win the war
So as the tick tock continues, as this exam ends
Kwamdeen will rise again
As long as my tick tock never ends