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The Train To Nowhere
You’re waiting for a train
You don’t know when it will come
Only that it’s coming
And that soon it will be here
And it will take you away
You can’t quite remember
Can’t make sense of why you know
But you do
Your waiting for something to come
What was it again?
...soon it will arrive
And it will… something will happen?
You’re not quite sure
It’s feels like this has happened before
The smell of smoke
It brings back nostalgia you’ve never had
And still can’t remember
Your hanging on to this
This feeling, this confidence
You have no idea where you will go
What will happen
So you wait
For whatever is coming
You wait
And time passes
When it happens
When it comes
You will have a purpose once again,
And your life will begin
Whenever it arrives
Whatever it is
But time has passed
And you haven’t got much left
But you're sure it will come
Of course it will
Your body aches
And it creaks
And in your head
You know it won’t come
And the ringing is getting louder
And soon it’s overtaking all of your senses
From this place you’ve stood
For what seems like all of eternity
And in the distance something comes
No, someone comes
A young soul
A lost soul
Hopeful as you were
And as you feel your strength fail and pass away
As your wrinkles sag
You fall down
The young soul takes your place
Where you once stood for all eternity
You look back at the tracks-
Since when were there tracks?
Smoke clouds your senses , whatever’s left of them
And there you see it
With cloudy eyes you make out
A train, gleaming in hot fiery red
With streaks of sunlight gold
How could you have missed it?
But you’re old
And time has passed
Your strength is gone
And what you’ve waited for is finally here
But you have no strength
And the young soul is still staring off
Still waiting
Oblivious to the train
And as it leaves the station
It leaves empty
And all you can do
Is watch it
With cloudy eyes
slip past you
Away
Away
It’s gone.
With only the smell of smoke
As a reminder,
That it was ever really there.