Stopped Clock - Poem

The only thing they noticed was the clock no longer chimed,
They'd complained about it's noise but he'd not listened to a word,
The clock had fallen silent sometime but they never thought,
Why the chimes no longer rang.

Nobody really missed the man who wound the clock,
They didn't think where he had gone, never gave a thought,
Why the clock was silent now after years of chiming on,
No-one cared where he was gone.

The neighbours hadn't noticed that he wasn't there
They didn't think that he had gone, they didn't stop or care,
They just had peace and didn't stop to briefly care that,
The Clock had stopped Dead.