Drum Roll Expected Please

You wind me up!

I watch you as you wind me up,

knowing

you care naught of my mechanics,

what makes me tick,

I merely a visible denotation

of your self-perceived position

wrapped round your flabby wrist.

You wind me up!

You think you manage me

but I manage you, set your pace,

my hands upon my face indicate

where you are  or should be 

in this very time and space. 

I am your controller.

You wind me up!

I am horoLogical, I am movement,

I am energy, I am precision. 

I move, wheels turn,

I bring societal recognition.

Your value is in me!

You wind me up!

I give you time, guide you

through the passage of existence,

offer a future state of potentiality

from this present to the finality of your past.

You wind me up!

I watch you as you wind me up,

knowing

you care naught of my mechanics,

what makes me tick,

I merely a visible denotation

of your self-perceived position

wrapped round your flabby wrist.

You wind me up!

 Value me – or time will quick run out for you!

Anna :o]

MLM at Mindlovemisery writes:

“This week’s theme is Personification! Personification is the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions. By all means feel free to submit stories as I feel this prompt lends quite well to fantasy. Any type of poetry goes, even just a blog posts about your encounters with animals behaving in a human manner would work beautifully.”

I thought I would write about my watch – not a Rolex (!) - which I would be totally lost without, the odd thing being that I have a pretty good sense of time and can almost always predict same before looking at my horological instrument – I guess I must need confirmation!

Time fascinates me and I often wonder what has preceded me in the annals of history - who/what occupied this very space in which I sit at my old computer desk…

‘How a Mechanical Watch Works’ – courtesy of Daniel Radeck at YouTube.