Train Crossing
Train Crossing
There are times in our lives when decisions that directly affect us need to be made. These choices often affect other people, which makes the decisions even harder to make.
A some point, though, there is a time when that choice is made. As the reader, recognize the poem below is at the climax of a story whose details are in your imagination, and what happens after is up to you. The poem, Train Crossing, is at a point of no return, for the tracks mark the threshold to a new life.
Train Crossing
The train is not coming,
and there’s nothing on the track.
It’s time for me to go,
and it’s best if I don’t look back.
This is just an old country road,
but it’s the only way out from here.
It’s not what lies before me now,
But my past that I really fear.
The big city has opportunities
and I hear you can easily blend in.
Get a new job and a new life, and
I know I can start all over again.
The train is not coming,
and nothing’s holding me back.
The memories begin to fade away
as I ease my way across the track.