His want

sipped in

filtered out

her need

Notes of a new dream, as sleep broke,

station platform, he there standing,

she walks briskly, looking, half-head turns,

he not seen, her name called, her pace up now,

he not heard, she hears him, day returns.

Entered

indifference

she pretends

Functional

unsatisfactory

empty no return

Dream the day we’ve yet to breathe

Hope the day we right a wrong

Fate the day that’s just begun

He entered

one-way street

backed-up with memories

ticket on his screen

Quirky cute, his kind of beautiful

filling bar, sat across a table from

buttons touched, hands held till…