an aquarium between them

The time has come again

Slowly walking down the steps

To where she would have been

If only they were seventeen

Waiting patiently

And stood between a fraying seam

Hiding from himself

As well as everybody else

Without permission

His face became wet

He thought he'd learnt how to not get upset

From folded notes in envelopes

'Meet me beneath the moon, don't go too soon

She went too soon.

The time has come again

And slowly walking down the steps,

To where she would have been

If only they were seventeen.