counting

i've started counting the weeks
watching the days
the minutes
since you left

oh why must February have 29 days this year?
that's a whole extra 24 hours
1,440 minutes i must find a way to fill
or whittle away

and when will you set your clocks back
so that the 1 incorporeal hour would be emptied
and we are 1 hour closer to each other?

my clock is already set ahead -
its time has never been changed -
because even though it reminds me
of how far ahead you are
somehow it makes me feel closer
to you too