Thursday, 19 January 2017

Platform Two To London Waterloo




Platform Two To London Waterloo



I thought that our tale would be like that of
A Regent Queen's and A Charming Prince'
So I spreaded myself on slippery steel chairs,
hung around platform edges, anxiously looking through the
nooks and crannies of gliding train doors.
I kept on waiting for a train that never left it's station.
I waited and waited, like children do for the ice cream van
except it was winter and my heart was
still stuck in summer.

I was on Platform two to London Waterloo
when I finally saw you.
You were sat with her at the coffee shop,
watching while she tenderly ate her bagel.
Your face was beaming like a light tower at night.
I saw it for a split moment...your silver smile.
It was the one you wore when you
listened to your favourite
song.
She was the quietness in your noise.
The type of quietness that
I never could be.