Friday, January 1, 2021

The Train of Life/生命列车

I wave at a train

It's time to say goodbye

No blowing kisses

Not a single word

As the sun looks pale

When it sets behind the quiet mountains

And the pallid moon rises

Smearing emaciated light on the platform

Nearly all the passengers have left

Chaotic footprints are dimly illuminated 

on the icy cold floor 

Murmuring quotidian tales before the glow

disappears like forgotten souls with beautiful names

that forever remain as unclaimed lost and found


I vigorously wave at the train

In the middle of the night

As it's the last trip

The last appearance outside my dusty window

Then I vaguely hear the fireworks popping in the distance

AS if seeing off its final journey

on the derailed track





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