TICK - TOCK

"The Old Clock on the Stairs" of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, can you hear it ticking?

"Never here, forever there,
Where all parting, pain, and care,
And death, and time shall disappear,
Forever there, but never here!
The horologe of eternity,
Sayeth this incessantly,
‘Forever - never!
Never- forever!’"

Or as contemporary poet, Edgar Allan Poe’s RAVEN reminds "Nevermore, nevermore!"
We are never alone; always with us is the ‘third man,’ ( i.e. guardian angel? ) mysteriously accompanying us on our journey tick-tocking our hours on earth.