WL Schuett

Leaking Clock

There was nothing left inside . 

No dreams, no compromise. 

It was all over . 

Sages of broken promises. 

Down from the mountains, 

lost in the rough country . 

Hoping for answers to questions 

that have no answers . 

Beneath a handsome , lonely old tree 

she couldn’t quite kill him 

but , she died a little herself . 

 

Fear was stuck so deep 

in her heart ,

it could not be dislodged. 

How to move her anger 

past her fear . 

He kept her from something 

she knew was her pride . 

 

Sowing seeds of despair . 

Crying tears of regret . 

So tied up but , she can’t quite 

cut the rope . 

 

In love she trusts , 

driftwood , 

deadwood , 

broken branches of 

damaged comfort . 

Desolate darkness prevails .

Black widow answers 

to the cinch of the rope . 

 

From another lifetime 

inside a clock that 

leaks the future . 

There is a language 

in the mountains 

that is calling her home .