Wednesday, February 26, 2025

a one-way ticket to nowhere Jan 2, 2025

 


I travel the wrong way on this train, South instead of North, though even if I had the ticket to take the other way, this train won't take me as far as I would need to go

 the cold river flowing alongside of these tracks, making me think I might make the trip upstream by boat when even that is not possible

 no welcome mat on her doorstep for me

I ride this train to places I have been before, seeing sites I've seen

 only none of these are connected to ones that recall with her

 her old world clinging to the cliffs where I stroll from time to time, feeling the absence she's left behind long ago and now far away, this place where no train goes, in a direction impossible to trace. a one-way ticket to nowhere


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