BRIEF ENCOUNTER

You may remember that there was a film of that title, produced way back in 1946, in different days to ours!

A rain-glistened station-platform

is no place for last goodbyes,

as travellers surge into empty carriages.

Two lovers wait for

just one more bittersweet moment,

snatched from time's unflinching schedule,

no desperate embrace to mark them out,

just distraught looks,

eyes, swollen with absent tears,

remembered for a while,

as they go separately back into sense and order.