Cuckoo's Escape

Finality of statements

Spoken with the clicking

Of clock hands

Sting through

And echo in empty hallways,

Out of time

Out of time

Out of time

Reminders thrown

Of shortcomings

And lost threads

Meant to follow through

But tangle in the end-

Pendulum marks speed

Of the demise

We wished to ignore

Like the sound of the second hand

Tapping away,

Stealing moments from us

That we believed

Would last forever-

How they dwindle down

With the passing of time,

Until the hands meet

At designated space

And the Cuckoo flies the nest

Leaving behind

A hollow space

To be filled only

By the sound of the ticking.

Katrina Thornley is a nature poet. novelist, and freelance journalist that resides in Rhode Island. She has two poetry collections currently published, a novel, as well as a short story anthology. Her poetry collections "Arcadians: Lullaby in Nature" and "Arcadians: Wooden Mystics" were inspired by a local park and life in her small rural town. You can find them on Amazon now!

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