The clock

Sort:
Avatar of Here_Is_Plenty

The clock

 

A frozen moment as despair

Eats into one forlorn chessplayer

He looks to see the clock race on,

Relentless, without mercy shown.

He doesn’t hate the one sat there;

Battle has been level and fair.

His foe is Time, who needs no friends:

A flag falls and the chess game ends.