Found and Lost
One day on the subway, what a coincidence!
He ran into his ex girlfriend of long absence
Amid the jostle they crushed into embrace
And all the ecstasy came back like a short circuit
“Long time no see, if you like, if you think it suit,
We might as well, by the way, come to my place?”
Narrow and gloomy was his new apartment room
But they assumed the role of bride and bridegroom
They had loved and missed each other all the years
How they regretted waste time for cold wars and tears
A brilliant morning came and found him fast sleep
She, stealthily rose, leaving the door ajar, went ahead
to get some delicacy for a surprise breakfast in bed
Just as before, lovers’ trick and treat they would keep
She returned soon, with her hands full
0nly to find the door shut and locked
Had to, with her toe tip she knocked
And out of the keyhole a woman’s voice doubtful
“Who? For whom? What are you here for?”
“Terribly sorry, but I come to a wrong door.”
She had marked it on the fifth floor
With the door facing downstairs
The window blocked by a signboard
On which the letters WANKE flares
Back to the street she was dumbfound
All the blocks seemed the same around
There must be hundreds of fifth floors
With windows blocked by signboards
There was nothing else that she could remember
not even what number to dial and call
had been too excited to exchange their phone number
Now panic and despair began to fall
She lost touch with him again, probably for ever
When the time passed noon, starving, stressed
She ate the breakfast bought for two, at a sit
Then she inquired the apartment management
the PA insurance company, even the police station
But they replied sternly
“we can not disclose personal information.”
Many a dusk finds the girl waiting at the terminal
In hope of another chance meeting as accidental
And the man, to and fro, at a loss as to why
She fled again, without ever saying goodbye