Poetry Reading: Once Upon a Clock Tower
263 views · Published 27 August 2009 · 2:18 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: bradlybee · 2009 · Entertainment
From my new book entitled "The Positivist And Other Poems," a 70-page poetry collection. If you're interested in purchasing a copy for $8, send me a message here on YouTube and we can work out shipping. I only take cash, checks and money orders at the moment, sorry. S&H is free. I'd be overjoyed if you did. :] HERE You can find sample pages from my book as well: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v353/jokestr2003/The%20Positivist%20Samples/ Anyway, I hope you enjoy the poem. It may be the first of many excerpts from my book. Here's the full text: ------------------ "Once Upon a Clocktower" We are suspended in time in the hands of a clock intertwined with the clockwork design. We are slaves to a face made of metals and stones That calculates death like a merciless drone But we are transcendant and young. We're wrapped like vines around these dials Trapped like mice in these confines But we're not alone. White moonlight floods in through in the stained glass Rainbows refract within our eyes As if angels were watching us die. And outside sleeps a spiritless city Drunk from the gloom of a mundane routine Accompanied, some, by a streetlamp-lit dream Everyone's waiting for something to change But the clocktower wakes them with bittersweet clangs 'Cause everyday's always the same. We're all plastered to fate In the chasms of time, and each city's clocktowers tick away life And you and I are barred in a tomb of machines where time doesn't wait and the pendulum swings we were born to this world in a pallette of grey chained to a truth we can never escape. But we're not alone, so we're not afraid. At the end of the world, when we're old and decayed I'll still be with you when the clocktower breaks ------------------ This piece is (C) 2009 Bradly Brackenbury. Do Not Steal.
