The Metronome | Mosaics

A Lonely Man in the Shadows

The metronome strikes

a thousand beats

tic, tic, tic, tic.

Monotonous and dull.

Across the ocean

in a country far away

a moth cocooned

works night and day

forging exquisite silk

until a day in early spring

she breaks out of her prison

and the little butterfly flies free.

She flaps her wings and starts

a storm across the sea.

But the metronome keeps

taunting the unhappy king

tic, tic, tic, tic

but it never beats a toc it always beats tic, tic.

Part of the mosaics cycle of poems