FIVE MINUTES

loved you
until all
of
five minutes ago

remember you
sitting at your desk

telling everybody
who you are

that five minutes ago
that five minutes of
having finally fallen
out of love

feels like a lifetime
compared to a
half century
of longing

that’s how it is Einstein
time being relative

we
never entangled, never
connected, never in synch
never in
the same space-
time frame

moving together at same
sub-light speed velocity

read you all
my poems, sang
you all
my ballads

and here we on your birthday
nothing to say to each other

Published by Damian Garside