A kiss in sunshine

 

Vacant faces

staring out at nothing.

Glancing at departure boards

then back

into the void beyond.

Pacing feet race

from ticket stall

to where their

trains await.

Pushing

to get a better seat

on their journey

into destiny.

 

I sit watching the man.

His face painted with misery.

It's a mystery I want to solve,

a conundrum. What makes

his heart grow so cold?

 

Did he just watch love

leave on a track

to someplace far away,

or did he forget his way

in life, and end up

at the wrong station,

on the wrong day?

 

As I'm pondering this,

a kiss in sunshine walks

along the platform

opposite mine,

and I wonder where

their life is traveling?

 

Are they off to start life

in the freshness of a new

sunrise

that is outshined

by their own inner glow?

Are they just taking a break

to a place of rest, a beach

with windswept waves,

or a place of rolling

green meadows?

The smiles on their faces

say that their days

are going to be great.

 

I sit and watch, and wait,

and as the light dims

on the day,

my train arrives

I embark on a journey

that falls onto my page,

as the countryside rolls on by.