i read this but it doesnt make sense plz help me?

Question

On the day that will always belong to you,
lunar clockwork faltered
and i was certain.

why did the day belong to you and why did the clock falter? i think when it says you it talking about death since the tittle is death

the rest of the poem is

to celebrate your son and i took a stroll through bloomingdale's where he developed a headace among copper skillets and tiers of collapsible baskets. pain tracked us through the china, driving us finally to the subway and home

Answer 1

Not the clock, but clockwork. Death was claiming you, that's why it's your day. The day death chose you with certainty.

Answer 2

Who is the speaker? Who is "you?"

Maybe the clockwork faltered because "you" did something to hurt the speaker? The speaker can no longer think of that day because "you" did such an unspeakable thing that the day will always belong to "you," no matter what else might have happened that day.

Do these three lines appear alone or is there more with it?

Answer 3

I read this, and I interpreted it to mean that the person had been sick for a long time, and one day, the person writing the poem had a feeling that something wasn't right, and later found out that the sick person had died at the time that the clock seemed to stop.

Answer 4

For people who lose a loved one to death, it seems like the clock sticks on that moment.

I had a client that kept her calendars at the date of her husband's death and the clocks at the time of death (he had died 9 years ago)...kind of creepy but that's the moment she chose to exist in.

Answer 5

Lunar clockwork faltered implies that time has stopped.

Answer 6

It doesnt make sense to me either since I dont have the rest of the poem or verse to put it in context. As a result its all interpretive.

Answer 7

the day you die, the clock will stop forever for you