Broken

By this life before me, endlessly draining

Awoken

And my eyes are straining, my will is waning

Heartbeat

Mechanical and cold, unchanging pulsing

Repeat

The sound of clockwork, endlessly ticking

When we surrender our lives to live by these routine motions

We never move mountains

Unending

We’re forever expending. Never ascending

I

Realise time won’t heal all this pain

It just wears at the stone

I

Won’t tread the worn path, a link in the chain

My road is overgrown

I will not be a Clone

Resist, resist

Clench these fingers into a fist

Ignore the utterance that ignorance is bliss

And Go

Release, Release

What potential was in me

Not a link in the chains, up from my knees

And Go

Resist, resist

Release, release

Serene, serene

I will not be a clone