Regret slammed-

A freight train carrying endless

Spellbinding wagons

Each rattling rocking

As I did

Hugging thin arms around a body

Long forgotten on a journey

Destination unknown

Origin founded in your arrival

Who pulled the switch

And changed direction?

So long now believing it was you

Freeing yourself of excess baggage

Me

But your eyes

Once pools of possibility

And crystal waters shimmering

Now dulled obscured

(Like your world is muddied

Dredged deep and all the muck

Brought to the surface)

You saw me but - oh - you

So failed to see in me

The preserved image I kept still

I keep still safe for you

Now how to tell you "Look you're there

See the glorious the mystifying

The elusive

See the imprint

Of a man who once smiled like he owned it."

I pulled the switch?

Sent you weightless yet

Futile-bound in the opposite direction?

Was it really

Me

The wagons travelled in minutes

Beyond sound (carrying you with them)

And so my words went unheard

And the answer will forever

Go back and forth

On that route