Saturday morning underground
Commuters stare at
Screens
Relieved to escape
The pain of
Seeing each other
The terror in the eyes
And the love that might have been
Could yet be
A train trundling down metal tracks towards its next stop
Auschwitz maybe
Or some other limit with a different name
One man seems lost in prayer
Fingers and palms pressed together
Pointing towards something higher
A kind of bliss
But when our lazy gazes
Meet and kiss
I see
He looks as tired as me