I have always found it hard to sleep on trains

Sometimes you travel with me

Sometimes we are apart

Today you are with me

I am watching you sleep

We are on our way to Scotland for a short break

Life has been quite mad recently

In ten minutes we will be in Preston

You will dream through Preston and many other stations

Whilst I sit here reading a book about gangsters

It is set in London during the Swinging Sixties

I found it in this compartment when we boarded

A few minutes ago I covered your breasts as they might be seen

If a nighthawk passes along the platform at two thirty four

Not that you would care as you are deep in your Highland dreams

It is always the journey that I remember well as I do not sleep on trains