The Train

“The Train” (6/16/2023 Tom Entrican)

It beacons you with pretty dreams all stirred in with the lies

The journey of a lifetime filled with everything you need

Be sure to savor all of it for you see this journey flies

You cannot fix it once it’s broke, the wounds for which it feeds

The light and dark both beautiful, yet one of them deceives

The passenger that you become determines all your pain

No matter what the dream may offer you will not believe

The consequences of your choice when you board the train

Oh, you can smile and have some fun, but wary you should be

For every darkened corner offers horror in the end

The journey gives everything the greedy eye can see

Those who hide where there’s no light, will gladly help you bend

So little do they understand while following the path

Like lost disheveled children playing in the cold and rain

Running just like minions out of fear of someone’s wrath

Then pack their bags for misery, tonight they board the train

We’re promised wings and better things if we choose the light

For who looks darkness in the eye and ever lives to tell

While an open grave awaits so many who refuse to fight

The urge to live in darkness, this place where they must dwell

To be among the best of what the Master does create

Where sadness has no foothold and absent is the pain

So one side or the other, either way you seal your fate

But I will be there in His light when I board the train