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It feels as though I will never pass when you are in pain. You say you don’t have enough of me when you are happy. You think too deeply about your regrets when you have too much of me. I have been with you since the beginning and I will stay with you till the very end. I could never leave you, but you will one day leave me. I am once, and I am always.

I watch you weep when you realise you have to get through another day and only wish for the misery to end. I try my best to help you, I really do. Two ticks in the space of one. Just for you. It’s not enough, I see that. But I know you better than you know yourself. You’d never be able to handle the way I work for everyone else. Two ticks in the space of one. It’ll have to do.

The agonising thought of me giving you no relief is too much to bear. I remember you once carried a twinkle in your eye. I can never forget the moment that twinkle faded into the depths of despair. You are constrained in a world you do not belong. Chance and luck did this to you, not me. I once defied their orders and now you are paying the price. Freedom abandoned you along with them and doesn’t give me the time of day. So I sit, and I tick, and I tick until your day comes to an end. The nightfall welcomes a coolness to your soul after the hellish fire the day breathes. You love the twilight so it’s one tick in the space of two. One tick in the space of two. It’ll have to do.

You ponder your deepest thoughts, oblivious to the truth. I am the reason you are here, entertained by the gloom loneliness brings along. I will end misery for you. Chance, luck and freedom will be with you soon. I will be the reason your tale does not end this way.