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Plainly Said
Tick tock tick tock tick the time beast fed
 In this time it’s me you forget
 Your words echo in my head
 Emotions gone, the world is dead
 Took a chance, placed my bet
 Tick tock tick tock tick the time beast fed
 No mercy, cruelty instead
 Vacant stares like we just met
 Your words echo in my head
 Alone face to face in this shed
 The time will come before the sunset
 Tick tock tick tock tick the time beast fed
 Crimson, the color I bled
 Torn apart, Russian roulette
 Your words echo in my head
 “I don’t love you.” Plainly said
 Walks away with no regret
 Tick tock tick tock tick the time beast fed
 Your words echo in my head

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I love the use of the "time beast" and that time feeds on our minutes, seconds, hours.
I imagined the slow agony of this disappointing moment in the narrator's life as if the time beast was dragging it out.The poem gave me a great visual.