The Train You were my lover once in a lifetime Wide innocent eyes Hands that had only to heal Lips with only soft words I only knew you You and your ears Where only soft truths fell And you were an illusion Because we held hands and Laughed in sunshine Skipped and fell down To get back up Because we knew not of loss Only of gain and recovery Resilience, innocence Patience and confidence Experience, silence, absence Words we never spoke You were mine and I yours The world was black and white And the train marched on without a word Kept hurtling forward, not waiting a second The clock ticks and it arrives Whisks past and it does not pause And the train kept going and going And you were swept away And I could have begged But there is no stopping that which you cannot control And the train continued on Steady, unforgiving, cold And the bitter truths that I now know Were told when you were swept away.