Bane

Time: the bane of our existence. Form: the Irish Droignech.

Now resonates the Reaper’s reckoning.
Swinging in silence, there the pendulum oscillates.
Destructor who liquidates life stands beckoning
as the seconding clock crashes, and time culminates.

Author's Note

Droignech: An Irish form in quatrains; 8 to 13 syllables, with each line ending in a trisyllabic word. The stanzas are rhymed abab, with cross-rhymes, alliteration in each line, and ending with a couplet. The poem ends with the same syllable, word, or line with which it begins.