Eternities

Here is the eternal
Stretched from end to end

A series of finite, finely divided eternities

This is all I have
This is what it will for ever be

And I pack into this tiny little eternity
Her smile
Caught between the music
that breaks free from silence

and I let the words climb on my voice
soft syllables
that steal hesitant glimpses of the world

and I suffocate
and I smile
and I sing some more to drown
this night
this eternity

as fleeting as a gust of wind
as permanent as the memory of its touch