Emily Spanos is a student at Towson University. She teaches second grade Sunday school part-time while juggling full-time college and a full-time job. Find out more about her here.

Time Teller
By Emily Spanos

Your arms latch around my left side
A silver crossed border surrounding
Your rectangular-shaped
Iridescent, white colored face
Like inside a mussel.
Pieced crushed diamonds glisten
As the light hits your digits
12 and 6, shown as XII and VI.
Your thin, reclusive hands
Move across your face
The third counts the passing seconds.
I glance at you some days more than others.
You count, calculate, compute
Seconds, minutes, hours
Days, weeks, months
Years, decades, millennia.
Your simple elegance adds class to life.