Subway

What was at one time

A faded orange rectangle:

Suddenly crisp 

As new, clean snow

Connections we

Had long lost hope for

Run once again 

Perfectly on time.

Fade

I'm prepared to fade

If it would just 

make you 

go away

spectre

uppercut to the glass jaw

lost keys 

not ever to be returned 

whoever said 

"the best things in life 

are the things 

where the journey 

is difficult 

and arduous"

obviously hadn't met you

the memory of it

still has the ability

To haunt me 

even though

all that you are is

a fading spectre of a past life

Beside me

I know you'd rather 

Be beside me right now, pal

them's the bloody breaks