Empty Envelopes

As if I could restrain

Watching you board the train

Calling out in vain

For you to stay

As if I could defy

The swelling ‘round my eyes

As good fortune for I

Always seemed to pray

I knew it then and there

But you could not hear

The time you couldn’t spare

The bridge now a pier

The train it leapt off

Into the cold blue

Its destination was

Never meant for you

The letters that I meant

The ones I would have sent

To tell you of my hopes

Now empty envelopes