Watch-ing

 

To understand

and more -feeling

what life is

within

by prying off 

the transparent face

what is sacred or

true

we can hold

hands

while causing them

to cease 

counting 

measuring deeper-

still

the gears moving

as does the heartbeat

outside the chest

pushed on

by the next,

by the last

place 

held

until loose 

screws

tell no time

has passed,

the past 

is going to come

On the dead man's wrist

the watch stops

telling

a second time.

Image taken October 22 2016 Description; Exhibit in the Karl Gebhardt Horological Collection (Uhrenmuseum Karl Gebhardt), Gewerbemuseum - Nuremberg, Germany. As a utilitarian object, this exhibit is NOT subject to copyright laws. Instead it is subject to Industrial Design Rights; see Industrial Design Right for more information. If this object was ever covered by a design patent, that patent has expired, and thus this image is in the public domain.

Carried on

It's all helicopters and electric guitars;

alarms and alerts-

this is more real now

than t ever was

flashback

With all the gears shifting and grinding

motors spew grease like spit

fire spreads like mad thoughts aloud.

It's all safe and sound and sun-shine

and it's not

lemonade stands and phone booths

nor Captain America or capes-

Now

some-where-else-one-mixed-up

present-past-back-again-remember…

Legends say

Silent nights

and nowhere fast and new,

howls deep and long and

carry on,

the rest

I cannot remember,

we’ve lost our hero.

Image credit: By Marshall, S. L. A. (Samuel Lyman Atwood), 1900-1977 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.