Phone in my hand, I wait for the train.
My eyes keep flicking to scan it again.
Absent is the text you promised you’d send.
The subtext appears: my future holds pain.

The stars in the sky to your eyes would lend
A sparkle, a sheen, to fidelity bend
I tremble with fear, it’s breaking my heart
The bile in my throat – could this be the end?

Accursed be a love, once riven apart,
A ship on the seas, beyond any chart.
I’d sacrifice, kill, if I could return
To when we first met, that hope-laden start.

A time when our love did recklessly burn
Weightless, but solid, no mortal could turn
Together our beings and bodies as one
unshakable union no one could spurn

We were a knot that could not be undone,
A speeding car that could not be outrun,
My romantic fantasy rendered me blind
I…