Train

Those of you
My age or perhaps
Even less
May know the train
Is on its way
Like the cash or Stevens
Song
I hear the train a coming
Or
Peace train
My trains a coming
It’s getting closer now
It’s picked up
Lots of family
That I don’t see now
It’s coming round that bend
It’s picked up lots of singers
Lots of actors too and just
Plain old ordinary men
It’s ruthless in its choice
It doesn’t scrutinise who’s who
Our tickets are for life
Let’s use them carefully
They were given at our
Birthday a free gift to all
Of us you see
Our death is fast approaching
The tickets wearing faded thin
The ticket collector waits
And yells hey that’s him
Today
Draw your last breath in
And wait to see the light
That evershining
Light
The ticket collector holds
That puncher thing
And in his other hand
An everlasting torch
A light
To guide you safely in
That railway master
Ticks you off as arrival
By on bye

Reviews

[wordman]

brings back memories of my train days

[Chris Shaw]

Life's journey on the train of life. You did this well and I enjoyed your lines.

Chris

[Einstein Noodle]

i love trains...those distance wailing whistles in the night moon ... i hopped one once and rode it for hundreds of miles .. three days and nights :} not very comfortable, kinda cold ...not quite the romance of my heart and thoughts of them ... ;) mentioning the songs tweeks my memories and my imagination ...
E.

[shruthi]

Really very good writing...about life train.....

[KCthelastboyscout]

The life train comes for everyone.some it's a little late.some it's too early.but it comes.dont keep looking at the clock.enjoy the time waiting.even tho this is written about death to me it's not a pessimistic point of view.just a real one.

[Paul Bell]

I see that train a coming, down the lonesome track.
Forever moving forward, never going back.
What is it about trains that get us all excited.

[Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)]

It’s the nine to five thing we all relate

[Paul Bell]

It sure is.

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Yeh all aboard lol
Sorry life’s the station the train will return to collect us

[Avia]

Hmm, Very nice use of words. It paints an interesting picture.

[Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)]

Thanks for your review
I appreciate

[Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)]

As I age my mortality I’m more aware and slightly slowly accepting

[Avia]

I can imagine, I pray that God guides me so when that train arrives, I would be happy and content with the life I have lived.

[Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)]

Yes thanks Ava me too