Dead Reckoning*

Beyond the end of love

Is restless waiting, scraping up bits of legacy

To flick the finger at a life

That was a reckless experiment

at meaning.

Beyond the end of love

Is the sadness of letting you down,

Who lived for love and loved me

Anyway, anyway come what came

Loved me and wasn’t 

loved as well.

Beyond the end of love

Are the doldrums of dead reckoning, 

The sum of distances traveled

From hopeful to hopeless shores —  

Periods preceding the end 

of the sentence

* - noun Navig. 
1. calculation of one's position on the basis of distance run on various headings since the last precisely observed position, with as accurate allowance as possible being made for wind, currents, compass errors, etc.

2. one's position as so calculated.

Origin: 1605–15