Hayley Openshaw

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Poetry

Tick-Tok

4 Apr 2026

Unsystematic have we managed our lives

Planetary navigation, unbalanced, no finds

You and me, chained to full bondage

Sun and moon, the worlds arranged foliage

An organs cycle experiences loss

For body embellishment comes at a cost  

It stiffens till tight

Bolts turn at night

Coggs spinning becomes stuck

In the dark where it struck

Systematically in tuned is our clock

Gambled every turn, its game called tick-tock

It's all ficklety, mockery, quick times a tickery

My hearts yearn for home has been cloned by mass trickery

For earth's possessions are deemed most fortunate  

The prize is an end to confused abandonment  

Goals plans come but marly to an end

Felt by my soul, a message it wants to send

Back to its source, to creation, true embodiment

All it learnt was organ in-tetherment  

My life, is it really my true fulfilment  

Or a chance to end material envelopment  

For my soul knows it’s true divinity

Back to a body it has no clarity 

Of where it’s been 

Who it really is

Why it’s here again

Only love knows all there is