Light Train

Light train chugging, working to outrun

Over exerting, pulling along your freight

Sand is running out under the diminishing sun

Fastidiously you tug on your enormous weight

Segmented equal in seven hulking proportions

Weaving between sleeping rocky giants

Assertion in your drive gifted from the high heavens

Borne of light your cargo load of tenants

Silver blurred rays glinting back as reply

As you power your way through

Defying seconds, before the last rays should die

Against odds, delivering what is due

Questing to alleviate my inflicted darkness

Spear of brilliance slicing through my mind

Illuminating the farthest and tiniest of crevices

Nook and crannies that willed me blind

Careful manoeuvring to keep your balance

Through scenic views fraught with treachery

Furiously working to keep your cadence

Hopeful of unloading the load you carry

What lies dormant in that cargo of yours?

What sleeps easy within those boxcars?

What stokes the fire to diligently run your course?

What promises you bear, travelling near and far?

Bales of hope and crates of strength

Supplies of kindness and self-worth

Reside within your immense length

Intact and lay quiet within your formidable girth

Reliant on the light that fuels and feeds

Your axles seem tireless guiding forth those wheels

Thundering over land with the power of a thousand steeds

Armed to your teeth with alloys and steels

Expelling grit and dirt as you pummelled across

Grey-white fumes, shoot up to the sky

Flag flogged by wind, billow and toss

Blaring your whistle as you race on by

Propelling forward, horizon up ahead

There it is...in all its tenebrous glory

Darkened locomotive seething mad with dread

Brace for the clash and the loads the two carry

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Taniska 😊€..]

Intresting read keep writing (smiles)😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

[Amada]

Thanks 😊 😊 😊

[Onlyme]

I really enjoyed this engaging, thought-provoking, really interesting, poem.

[T.S. Sky]

This poem has a mysterious vibe which I love. Great work.

[Amada]

Thanks 😊 😊 😊

[T.S. Sky]

You're welcome 🙂