We stood in Holborn station, <br />ten minutes the train will leave, <br />amidst people reaching destinations, <br />winter air so hard to breathe. <br /> <br />Littered baskets, seats and kiosks, <br />tickets on the ground, <br />one word from your lips <br />would make me turn around. <br /> <br />If only I had asked you wait! <br />Please don't go yet, <br />stop and talk to me, <br />my life's moment go I let. <br /> <br />Thoughts: <br />If I had touched your hand, <br />if I caressed your hair, <br />if I kissed your fingertips, <br />if I had shown my care. <br /> <br />Will you return and talk again <br />can I hold you close, <br />let me really understand <br />the one I love the most. <br /> <br />City streets of yellow lights <br />on nights so dark and wintry, <br />a year has passed since you left <br />how long the hours defeat me. <br /> <br />Nights of making love <br />moments our eyes have seen, <br />ecstasy of joy surrounds our bed, <br />breathing out as you are breathing in. <br /> <br />I still have the memory <br />to keep our love anew, <br />how can love fade <br />for someone as lovely as you. <br /> <br />Now back into my world <br />where life is day to day, <br />you never come to the train <br />no more, my heart gone away. <br /> <br />I had a moment of light <br />in a lifetime of darkness, <br />a way to change this tangled mess, <br />a way of escape but no more, no less. <br /> <br />I failed to reach the gate, <br />the train disappeared in vain, <br />in my foolish self doubt <br />I will never see you again.<br /><br />Richard Allen Beevor<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/it-could-only-happen-to-me-2/
