I can tell the time
through shades of grey
light and half light.
I can tell the time
through the shades of pain
in grief and heartache.
I can tell that time
is on its side now you are gone
and I live in your shadow,
where I see through
the thinness of time
your face in liminal space
in the hands of time
in the length and half length
where I never knew
the riches of you
in the poverty of me.