Surrounded

This is inspired by Fandango’s flash-fiction challenge #20. However, I wrote a poem instead of a short story. I found the prompt photo intriguing:

Image from Geralt@pixabay.com.

I am also linking this to today’s one word challenge.

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Look at all the clocks from inside soulless eyes,

Surrounded by so many circles, with hands counting down,

Read the Roman numerals despite that civilization’s

Fall; and the Arabic numerals or no numbers at all.

Simply see the timepiece run, the time tick by

Like an avalanche, impossible to manage:

No one can halt time, despite much knowledge.