Best Poems Written by Aliza Marquez

The Broken Clock

It stands in dust on the mantle high
It's hands long still beneath the sky

Once it chimes with a golden cheer
Marking love, and loss, and every year

Now silence pulls where rhythm lays
Time forgot to come this way

It's face is cracked, brass grown pale
A ghost adrift without a sail

The hours sleep behind the glass
Moments trapped that cannot pass

Yet still it holds a kind of grace
A memory trapped in times embrace

I seen my grandfather wind it tight
Her fingers worn, but smiles bright

I hear the echo of it's chime
The way it sang of borrowed time

It may not move, but still it keeps
A quiet watch while the household sleeps

It's not broken, just transformed with age
A silent story on a stage

And though it doesn't tick or sway
It whispers all it used to say

Some things don't need to run to be
They live in stillness, proud and free 

Copyright © Aliza Marquez | Year Posted 2025