Long Days

Long Days ( for Kate ) I measured the time between breathing I counted all the days that you were leaving Long before you had gone Saying goodbye without a word Warning me in a silence I never heard And the days are not endless But no-one remembers How the hours could fly Counting every second as they passage by Before the days grew long And before you “never” said goodbye Did you measure the time of a life time Pithless and fickle in your own soul Already seeing the days when you would not be mine And were these words behind all your kisses He still misses me, Still And the days are not countless But days still no-one remembers How through every hour I could try Not to count the hours as they pass by Before the days grew long And before you “ever” said goodbye I never thought in my strength I would find my weakness Vacant spaces left so defenseless Broken on the back of every sunrise I look in the mirror and all I can see are your eyes Musing and bemused on loss And the days are not faceless Just full of faces that no-one remembers Even though my soul knows my heart can fly It lays wingless and it just won’t try To elevate the dreams passing In these days that grew too long Before you said goodbye And one day you may wake up and try too hard to forget my name Might look in the mirror and feel the same It maybe a smile but you will wonder why Why it is your heart can’t fly And on that day your strength will become your weakness And the past will become so completely nameless Saying goodbye without a word And leave you in a silence that you never heard Counting all the hours that have passed us by Before that day grows far too long You’ll question why you ever said goodbye