Revenge - edit2

[busker]

Revenge


Have you ever noticed that
you cannot stop a pendulum?
Oh, you can let it run into
your hand or even catch and hold
it, pinch it with your fingertips

yet you must finally let go
and it will swing back in again
a tiny bit past center ‘til,
all energy potential spent
on air or bearings, it will halt–

not stopped by you: a pendulum
will always have the final say.

the lines in green I find a bit verbose
otherwise, I like the central idea of the poem, that the pendulum exacts a sort of revenge by not being subject to human control