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