Taxi meter clicks on vinyl seat
Night fare paid in crumpled receipt
Watch slips loose from worn-out coat
Falls toward the concrete throat
Pocket watch drifts on coastal breeze
Time suspends above the seas
Gold case catches morning light
Seconds stretch through endless night
Driver watches in rearview glass
Moment hangs like winter grass
No passenger to claim the prize
Just gulls and their salty cries
Chain unspools from rusted link
Brass gears drink the ocean ink
Minute hand forgets to sweep
Hours drowned in waters deep
Pocket watch drifts on coastal breeze
Time suspends above the seas
Gold case catches morning light
Seconds stretch through endless night
Meter stops but time keeps rolling
Tide don't care for man's controlling
Every fare learns this the hard way
Salt eats steel but not the day
Dawn breaks over pier and rail
Watch comes rest on kelp and hail
Driver picks it up with calloused thumb
Winds the crown, hears silence come
Pocket watch drifts on coastal breeze
Time suspends above the seas
Gold case catches morning light
Seconds stretch through endless night
Driver smiles, resets the time
Every fare gets one more rhyme
Taxi pulls from overpass
Watch ticks steady in the glass
