By Jennifer
Date: 31 August 1999

Time Eternal

Do you know how slow the time goes by without you?
Minutes are hours and hours are days on my clock today.  
I sit and think of you as I watch each minute slowly slip away.
Wondering if I will ever wake up to your smiling face again
Or if I will ever feel your warm embrace and know 
that you are where you want to be
and that is near me 
and that you do not touch me out of an obligation 
but from an uncontrollable force that makes your skin want mine....
and makes your heart want mine.  
Oh all the seconds and minutes and hours of life I would give 
just to have one long second for you to look in my eyes 
and tell me without words how much you need me in your life.  
Perhaps that second has passed me by - and I missed it because there are so many seconds in a minute and minutes in a day.  
I can’t get that one second back.  
What is it about the broken heart that thinks the past heaven 
and the future an eternal hell?  
To spend a life without you would mean to wander the earth in slow seconds 
and miss you for eternity.