The rumble of the rattling train washes out the stations frenzy as it pulls away
This time apart will be short lived yet there’s a new ache I’ve not felt before
The city fades from view shifting into rolling hills and pastures as the hours tick by
I look at your last message, “travel safe, sorry I couldn’t see you off. I love you.”
We are still relatively new and shiny, yet it feels as if we have always been, you and I
I thumb the tattered picture fished from a pocket in my wallet
A costumed version of us from last Halloween with tipsy smiles
Only a few months ago yet it feels so long since then
WE are so much closer now, as if tied together with a length of twine
Yet no matter how far it stretches between cities it will not break
I know I will feel the strain, the ache, this new feeling seperate
Yet I know how sweet it will last, the return from far away
The first embrace, the first kiss and that first “I love you.”
Prompt: A Separation
