The Last Ring on the Tracks

Today, something broke inside me.
A railway accident… a life ended too soon.
I walked toward the still body with a trembling heart,
terrified it could be someone I knew.
It wasn’t.
But pain doesn’t need familiar faces.

He lay there with nothing beside him
except a phone placed gently on his chest,
as if it was the last connection he had to this world.
And then suddenly—
the screen lit up:
“Abba" calling....

In that moment, my breath stopped.
My eyes filled before I could hold them back.
A father waiting…
a call that would never be answered…
a story that ended on cold tracks
while the world continued to move.