Dairy Entry: A 40 Liner (Mike's Challenge)

'It wasn't the right time for us to meet. But there'll be other nights, other stars for us to watch.
        They'll be back.'  ~ Harry Essex
 
 
I linger on a quote
I found last night:
'It wasn't the right time
for us to meet'  
I stop,
even though the quote  
is not yet finished.  
As an amateur skeptic
I, sometimes, am 
I ask myself  
and every ghost  
that lies beside me:
'Why wasn't it  
the "right" time?
'What is the definition
of a, so called, right time  
and last but not least
I question the relevance  
of the following  
lines which complete  
Essex's sublime quote.  
I end up confusing myself
even more and the
answers I seek  
are nowhere to be found.  
 
Perhaps I need
to feel your presence
close to mine.  
Your perfume down  
my nostrils  
and into my lungs.
Your glance to mine  
might be enough
for now.  
 
I owe you  
one last goodbye  
and a polite smile
to the pretty girl next to you.