Hi Mell79 and thanks for your comment. Yes it's a bit like hanging or ticking like a clock? It's two tanka verses. I used that structure to help with the brevity of the theme which I think is ending/beginning. It's a new years poem. I've had 47 new years and to me it's like running toward something that has no end - like time. Yet so many of us want something to change whether that's in our lives or in the wider world. Can time really change who we are?