water-clock

Clock
The hidden mechanism within.
Relentless gears. Turning.
And Water
in bowl, in pool, river and lake,
wider and wider, oceanic.
Source of life. Blood. Cloud. Sky.
Sun arising
New day, eyes opening.
Casting away the nagging dreams,
night gloom and regret.
To answer Time's threat
with eagerness.
So swift the clock
but we are quick, racing to be free.

The water
of which we are, and all the world,
out there, within, and far beyond
the vast sea border.
Waiting.
So still