Pendulum

Dogmatic clock-tower tolls
Chime forsook wayward souls
Struck by steely pendulum
Chords of anarchy strum

Gild grains slowly slip
Twilit fragments tip
Sediment lapse hourglass
Remnants of time pass

Hoard seconds afore last stand
Grim entitled to befallen sand
Enrapturing metronome
Quantum summons home

Hours wane fainthearted
Bereft vestiges departed
Clockworks vessel shatter
Bygone qualms cease to matter