Title: Escapement
Fandom: Original
Challenge: Clock
Other prompt:
Rating: G
Length: 48
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zhie & Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: The passing of a cosmologist



Strings that tied but touch
Threads not snapped, nor cut
But frayed away, untangled
Knots undone with every shifting breath

The little clock (now silent, slow) subsumed
Into the the greater ticking of the Universe
Until the spring unwinds and all is still
Released to quantum, cosmic dust

WGT: 5 Apr 1932 - 4 May 2022