How Shall I Count the Seconds?

A love poem to a someone I still care about, even though we're not together anymore

How shall I count the seconds, dear?

How shall I keep the time?

Until at last we meet again

And feel love’s brilliant shine

 

How should I count the minutes, dear?

How should I pass them by?

How can I stand to be away

And wait for time to fly?

 

How must I keep the hours, dear?

How must I keep at bay

The everpresent loneliness

Threatening to swallow me away?

 

How slowly go the days, my love

That pass by in a haze

Till we are no longer far apart

Forced to go our separate ways

 

But every thought of you, my love

Serves only to build our bond

And time seems only pithy

Till my heart resumes its song

 

For you, my love, and eternity

Seems only the briefest span

Yet I would wait forever

Just to hold your hand

 

My life, my love,

You are my whole world

And I would wait forever

Just to see our love, like a flower,

Blossom and unfurl

 

So how shall I pass

The minutes, the hours, the days?

With every simple thought of you

Time just melts away

 

A century, an eon

I would unflinchingly wait

And not a single ounce of love

Would waver, would abate

Forever would I wait for you,

But perhaps, with luck

I won’t have to.

I love you.