The Length of Time
I don’t know how long it was
between your second-to-last
breath and your last breath,
but I know that time receded
and I was a hologram of myself
in a dirty underhang of despair
But I also don’t know how long
it was between the times that I
told you I loved you because
it could have been a second
or an hour, but never more than
when I waited for your last breath
© Jonathan Greene, October 9, 2026
