Zagreb Town Clock

Men and women mill round it exchanging callous looks towards the time

Waiting for something to happen in their pleasant observant lives.

They’ll never move till’ the time bores them too greatly. 

But it will draw them in once more to this simple observatory.

The observatory of time in the Town Centre Square 

Stands as a beacon an omnipresent white glare.

A plethora of commotion round it’s dry modern surface 

A gaggle of people with no definitive purpose.

They never care when to eat or to work 

Either businessmen sincere or teachers too curt.

But whoever stands beneath it’s monochrome hands 

Will be sure of the time to be taken or shared

For the time is much adored in Zagreb Town Square.  

C.D.B.Bowerman