Bahnhof
Rostocker Haupbahnhof is bursting with life. I am bursting with life together with him. Staying just in 5 meters from my friend, I feel an incomprehensible blend of joy and sorrow. I am staying close to her but it feels like something is going wrong. I am telling her something. But she does not understand. At this point I realize that now she and I have probably started speaking different languages. I begin to gesticulate actively, showing her with my fingers all the swarm of thoughts that reign in my head and want to get out. She also shows something. But her motions are more constrained. She sits and it is not comfortable for her to be that expressive. But she smiles. There is a shadow of grief in this smile. I smile back at her, finally giving up the attempts to understand what is going on around. It is 3.06 pm. We are still close, but there is an uneasy feeling in the air that something tremendous is about to happen. Something that might affect or even change the further lives of us. Partly, but still change. All of a sudden sound of whistle pours out all over the station. The platform immediately becomes deserted. But she is still here, she is still close to me. It is 3.07 pm and she smiles at me again. Wider, more expressive, more happily and more sadly at once. I smile back. I look more thorough at her and notice a glass between us. A window glass. She is in a train. I realize it exactly at the moment when the regional Hansa Express starts moving forward. She gradually and gracefully sails away from me. She is still joyful and still sad. I watch the train carrying her forward. It rapidly rushes her forward, where the paths of our lives will hardly ever cross again. Realizing the real meaning of the moment, I fall into stupor and keep on fixedly staring at the disappearing from the scene train. The platform is empty. There is no one around. Only Sunday rail station. Silence. And the bright Sunday sun. It makes me feel like I am resurrecting, reviving, starting new life. In silence, in sun, but without her.