Train (A Love Story) Poem by Robert Smith

I once fell in love
On the back of a train
Through the urban decay
Of a city in pain

I rode this strange city
On steel rails unknown
Past buildings and neighborhoods
Far from my home

Her eyes. Oh the eyes
And the hair that fell by
And a smile that could warm
the Lake Michigan sky.

An ethereal countenance
As the sun lights the day
When our eyes locked she smiled
Then looked quickly away.

Forgive me now
For I cannot express
The beauty I saw
In her face and her dress

And those eyes how they pierced me
Both streetwise and smart
With an aura of crystal
That burned in my heart

Yet all of my calm cool
collected demeanor
Simply froze my mouth shut
If you just could have seen her

You'd know all my feelings
wrapped up in one word
But between us the railway
Was all to be heard.

I appeared calm I'm sure,
But my mouth simply failed
I was frozen and weak
And the silence prevailed.

And where to begin?
I mean what do you say
When you're out of your league
And the time ticks away

But then the train stopped
And more people got on
A bunch of street kids
And the moment was gone

Would you be my girlfriend?
A teenager asked
It shamed me a little
'Sure honey' she laughed

She was too cool for words
But my chance it was lost
And with one last sly grin
She then rose to get off

As if sailing away
My dreams following her
I don't even know in the town
where we were

But what did she feel?
Through that dark city chill
And what did she see?
Does she think of me still?

Did we share the same dream
Did she also regret?
Or perhaps that was good
as it ever would get.

This love it was pure
True and cut like a knife
But I'm grateful she spent
that brief time in my life.