Forever and a day

"If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do, is to save every day till eternity passes away just to spend it with you..." (Jim Croce, Time in a Bottle)

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I will love you forever...

What does that even mean?

What is forever

but a string of letters,

empty nonsense

about something

we can never

experience

here, now

where

the myriad moments

we accumulate

and call

a life

are finite,

where each life

is as

significant -

across the broad

expanse of time -

as a grain of sand

a molecule of water

a speck of stardust

in the vast universe.

There are not enough

seconds in one minute

minutes in one hour

hours in one day

days in one week

weeks in one month

months in one year

years

in

one

lifetime

for us to spend loving

and feel that we loved

enough.

So,

I will love you forever

where forever is

every moment

I have breath

until I no longer do

until we are

together but

ash

and

dust

mingling

with

eternity.