Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Numbers

If I counted the days
from my first breath
to today,
I would find I've lived
12,479 days so far. 

If I counted the days
your heart beat drummed,
I'd see that you lived
just 22,958 days in all. 

I can't imagine
that my life is more
than half over. 
Of course I never
thought yours 
would end so soon. 

The loss
is heavy on my heart,
like a 10 pound weight
hooked in 
and dragging it down
into my stomach. 

It's been 4 years,
which seems like a lot
but then I look
at how many days
you have been gone - 
1,646 days -
and it seems 
so much less
somehow. 

Now numbers
define me.

452
300
7.8
239
34

How empty
the numbers are
that matter so much.

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