‘It’s just one day’, you told me.  

Just one day to wait, to wish, to hunger.

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But, just one day can feel unending,  

especially when I do the maths.

 

Just one day is:  

24 whole hours,   

one thousand four hundred forty minutes,  

86 thousand four hundred seconds,  

perhaps a hundred thousand heartbeats

until   

I’m in your arms  

and feel your heart  

beat with mine.

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Just one day was all it took   

to fall in love.  

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In just one day begins  

a life of days and weeks and months and years,  

lived one day at a time,  

together.