Clockwork girl by Damaris Martinez
She sleeps,
sleeps
until she can’t.
She’s afraid to wake up.
She’s awake
awake
until she’s not.
She’s afraid to fall asleep.
Why are you afraid,
clockwork girl?
To fall asleep when your
Inner workings,
Are overworking.
To be awake,
Depart from your night(mares)dreams,
It leaves an ache.
Trying to cross from one
State of being to another,
It leaves you alone to face reality,
A new day (night).
Grab your sword
clockwork girl.
Don't be afraid
To cut between the veil of the two.
You are burning,
Sweltering,
Malfunctioning,
clockwork girl.
Your gears, your wheels,
your steel,
Everything in you,
Is overworking to the bone.
You’re inner mechanisms are
Screaming at you to be
Submerged in the calm
Cool waters
They wish to be drowned so that
It could be ever so quiet
In you.
Listen to them.
Before they drown you too
Swim,
clockwork girl.
They siege to be
submerged in your tears.
Don’t be afraid to live,
clockwork girl.