(I tried to find a prompt that fits this poem i had to write for school, its good enough, praying my teacher likes it 😋)

He never thought he could forget

The day time went blank,

And was nowhere to be found.

He was waiting with his mother

She said that her meeting was important

So he must wait outside.

And she had said she would be back

Not too long from now

And he must wait for her and not leave his chair.

He sat and waited,

Waited as the clock ticked the seconds away,

Waited for her return.

He watched the red line move on the clock

Accounting for each of those

Seconds he waited

The sound of each second passing

Slowly faded into the background

As his thoughts faded into the background of his mind

Where the ticking continued

The same way the grandfather clock

That his grandmother used to have ticked

The same way the classroom clock

Counted the minutes

Until hometime

The same way a ticking time bomb would

While counting down to the inevitable

Ticking, ticking, ticking…

Until-

Come on. We can go now.

His mother smiled taking his hand.

And he walked out the room

Leaving behind the clock

As it ticked its goodbye.