Time

Teeters

Days pass

So fast, so fast,

A toy top unwinding

Circumference twirling

In and out of far-flung light

Night's shadow flows about the sphere

A negative pulse computing and defining day

Minute blinking intervals of intermittent, microscopic

Measurements, mutations of a pale planet's capsule flight

Waffling, wobbling, widening imperceptibly, inevitably toward oblivion.