Tick-Tock

I have long to be away,
for life

as long is where I stay,
in strife

of a cell, and I in the way,
for life

is not as long as I say
“in strife

I am”, and where a day
for life

is but an hour away
in strife

is what is not. So I say,
in strife,

“this is all I am away
for?” Life.