Wednesday, April 24, 2024

TRAIN

 

TRAIN

Freight train

On the plain

Puffing against the big skies

You are gone

This railroad song

Im singing still for you

Banjo strung

Church bells rung

Almost gone

Old railroad song

mountain pass

tunnel through

toy trains Im

in love with you

all the figures along the track

children waving

oh come back

tiny shrubs and old downtowns

brick by brick you whistle round

keeping us still looking back

yellow freight train on your track

clothes out on the laundry lines

flapping in the breeze of time

farmers plowing in the fields

and ghost towns, losing their appeal

oh railroad sounds

from long ago

why is it that you haunt me so

mary angela douglas 24 april 2024


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