Trains We Both Missed

Long good-byes like

Magic tricks

Left us transfixed

From separate crumbling platforms

Waiting for

Trains we'd both missed

I watched the meteor's tail flash

On its way to nowhere

I'll lay myself across these tracks

Just take me in your arms

Tell me I belong there

Sound the bell

Call the lions back

Back to their kills

We're nothing but a trick of the light

Pools of blood where

Time won't stand still

And even this will pass

Though you swear you'll save it all

We're shadows muted stars once cast

Shoot me like an arrow

Beyond the city's high walls

I watched the fox's tail flash

Then vanish in the frozen air

I laid my hand across its tracks

Imagined them still warm

That love was waiting somewhere