Ever On

Ever on, ever on.
      Darkness sweeps through day
  and smothers it politely as
              small children creep about begging for

 "just ten more minutes".
          Of time,
                       of life.
         Of both I think.

Ever on, ever on.
             I,
                for my part
  in this silly sweet play,
               shall wrap myself in words
         breathed by antiquity
   and called
"Agamemnon".