How long is a lifetime?

Is it years or the weight of a glance?

Is it my grandfather’s breath in December

Or the silence he left in advance?

How long is a goodbye

When it echoes for decades in dreams?

If I close my eyes at twenty

Will I still be twenty in the seams?

I measured time by the length of a laugh,

Not the tick of a clock, not the math.

A single word from her

Felt longer than whole summers passed.

So how long is a lifetime...

When the seconds don’t last?

There were Sundays that aged me in minutes,

Mondays that vanished in smoke.

I’ve sat in rooms where a minute took hours,

Where apologies drowned when we spoke.

And I wonder if ghosts know the time

Or just haunt what they remember.

If grief keeps its own calendar,

Then I’m stuck in September.

I measured time by the length of a laugh,

Not the tick of a clock, not the math.

A single word from her

Felt longer than whole summers passed.

So how long is a lifetime...

When the seconds don’t last?