By ©Junia Brutus 2025

At first blush, the platform hums, a fleeting tone

Night train’s murmur fades, I’m left alone—

A cherry-tinted pass, you let it slip

Stranger’s touch, a clasp, a fragile grip

Our sleeves entwine, heartstrings stay confined

Beyond the gate

You melt in spring’s design (spring’s design)

My sigh’s a needle’s scratch, it carves my core—

Unread words collapse, where petals soar—

Oh, on this shimmering path, your silhouette sways

Passing fast

A trace in spring’s soft haze (soft haze)

Morning’s flicker

A dance, no name to frame

Spring winds sway

Your form remains the same

Noon’s soft raft of blooms

Your dreams afloat

Night’s faint hum, your shade in distant note—

Spring returns, the heart begins to thaw

Time’s soft turn

Unbound by love’s old law (love’s old law )

Steps hit the beat, dusk’s counter glows,

Her left ear’s spark, where a star’s chip shows—

Last train’s fade to black, no names to share,

Tomorrow’s track, we’re strangers still, nowhere—

Cold blooms spit a rhyme, flip the old song’s play,

“Spring’s wild chime, your scarf unwinds today” ( today？)

Tunnel’s breath maps time, seasons fall in line,

"Petals drift and fall, caught in wind’s embrace,

Light’s soft call, I seek your fleeting face" [piano trills]

Turn around, your form in mirrors gleams,

Double-bound, love splits in woven dreams— (woven dreams)

Morning’s flicker

A dance, no name to frame

Spring winds sway

Your form remains the same

Noon’s soft knot of blooms

Untied by breeze

Dusk’s faint mark

Your warmth in mirror’s tease—

Night’s veiled secret hums, breath clouds the glass

Spring’s return, where hearts unbind at last ( last)

Hazy moon’s soft veil, platform’s fleeting duet—

Her steps align, with spring’s unwritten debt—

Nameless love departs, tracks fade in mist

Spring’s last spark, where hearts and seasons twist