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Another Train Song

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Standing on the platform, waving goodbye to yesterday’s train.
Perhaps you wanted to feel you had a little bit of control.
You’re saying you hope that train never comes back again.

 A peripatetic pretense helps to ease the pain.
It’s a phantom journey, but no one has to know.
Standing on the platform, waving goodbye to yesterday’s train.


You collected yourself, stood erect, and hoped to appear sane.
I’ve been on this journey for years—the train is so slow.
You’re saying you hope that train never comes back again.

 I think all I wanted was shelter from this rain,
But you’ve let the rot set in and grow,
Standing on the platform waving goodbye to yesterday’s train.

You’re still battling the demons I thought we’d slain,
We could have escaped together and reached our goal.
You’re saying you hope that train never comes back again.

You wished me well, and I left after the hurricane,
And now you seem darkened by your own shadow.
Standing on the platform, waving goodbye to yesterday’s train.
You’re saying you hope that I never come back again.

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Randy Horton

Tue 18th Dec 2018 12:10

Thanks for the comments, everyone. Martin, I haven't read this one out anywhere yet.

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Martin Elder

Mon 17th Dec 2018 16:38

Brilliant Randy . Is this one you have read recently

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Alan Travis Braddock

Mon 17th Dec 2018 14:00

Oh I like this one. A poem for all of us old has-beens, better than a never-was perhaps, but still sad. Not long now, the even older train will call for us, and this one will stop.
Cheers, Alan

Big Sal

Mon 17th Dec 2018 13:34

Excellent analogy, Randy.?

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