Urban romance

Emerging from the rain, as if parting the curtain of a stage,

Wearing no glitter and yet glowing like a movie star,

Shining in the winter gloom is her fair hair and even fairer face,

She is keeping within sight, and me captive in this coffee-bar.

Then, as befits a miraculous apparition, she suddenly vanished behind a lorry,

Putting an end, even before a start, to a beautiful love story.