I will have to catch the train
and leave you. For I am
a wanderer in search
of a destiny. Only here
squeezing in time,
making a sidetrip
for memory’s sake.
Holiday is sweet
in these short hours.
Recollecting the good
old-natured yesterday
becoming vague now.
And in your eyes
there are outlines
of the life you wish
you had with me.
How could it be
so beautiful? Still
I cannot stay, if only
I exist in a fairytale.
There is a real world
outside your nutshell.
Breaking away beyond
here- that I must go.
I need to exist
day after day
among other strangers
flocking the city streets.
How can you keep
a dream from going on?
I am not so sure, while
I catch train after train
hoping not to return.
Ignoring the illusions
fulfilling your fantasy.
I found you, still,
a girl and a child.
With the same old
story to tell. And you
do not see that I have
become so different.
So far away, a distance
far too wide to belong.
Love is not possible
between you and me.