The clocks (Los relojes)

Have the clocks stopped?  From my Dad’s book  Elementary motherland (Patria elemental).

The clocks  (Los relojes)

It would be impossible to know when

the clocks on the city’s towers stopped.

Ah, the clocks without bells, without hands

and without the announcement of the hours:

its job!

It is a city that does not walk along the

road of time, foreign to the second that hurts

and the fugitive second of glory that exalts.

Time goes through the city without

being seen by its clocks that wait afraid of rust

for the charity of a clockmaker.