Midnight

23.58
The crickets cannot chirp louder than this silence.
The vast expanse of the sky cannot stretch wider
        than the footlong chasm of smoke and thoughts
        between us.
The chill of the night breeze is no colder
        than the ache in my bones
        than my swallowed words
        than the rush of yours
        in my blood.

23.59
There was never any Forever with you.
There was only Now.
        and so now, without you,
        there is only When.

00.00
So here I am, between yesterday and tomorrow,
Realizing that We were but a grain of sand
        slipping through the narrow waist
        of Time.
Buried now, under the ashes of Us
        under the many footsteps we have both taken
        away from each other.

00.01
Maybe someday I will let you go.