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Clocks ticking
Clocks ticking,
A steady beat that races with my heart,
Seeing who dares to go faster.
So cloce to dying yet my heart still beats;
Still a constant boom boom that shakes through my body.
I rest my head on my pillow.
My heartbeat echoes in my ears like the sound of soft footprints on carpet.
Closer.
Closer.
Death is approaching me.
I shut my eyes.
He can take me.
There is no fear in death.
He can be heard anywhere.
In the footprints on carpet,
In the ticking of a clock,
In the silence you hear when you hear nothing at all.
Death apporaches and my heart speeds up.
Faster.
Faster.
Faster than the clock.
Like running footsteps, fleeing
I flee but I have nowhere to go.
I cannot escape my own heart.

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