Midnight Signal

Last train

sliding

through my mind

Rain on the rail,

silver on stone

I read the board,

but the names are gone

Your coat in the glass for a second stays Then drifts with

the doors and the freighted haze I keep one thought like a

ticket stub

Soft in my hand,

nearly rubbed away

Platform air, hold me there

One old phrase in the station air

Coming close, then gone again

You were almost here

I can feel it near Like a name cut short

When

the doors draw clear

You were almost here

Then you disappeared Still the line runs on

And I

keep you near

Static on the tannoy bends the time

A broken vowel hanging in the grime Streetlight water trembles at my

feet Night keeps folding every passing beat

I don't chase what already moved along

I just learn the shape of an unfinished song Stay with the

hum

Stay till the dawn

Half of a word Half of it gone

You were almost here

I can feel it near

Like a name cut short When the doors draw clear You were

almost here Then you disappeared Still the line runs on

And I keep you near

Almost here Still near