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Train Rider
November 29, 2021
Bring your redemption
to life’s banquet.
The barricades
of grace—
The memory and the future
come to me
when I am under blankets
staring at the face painted world—
Neon and burned streetlights
and shriveling milkweed meaty tear souls
with homework to do
as the sky tries to collect us.
We put our truth
in the trees.
Bring redemption
like a train ticket to the Life Light Tear Express
where I ride, where I ride,
where I ride.
© Alyssa V., Chicago, IL
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SparrowSun ELITE said...
on Dec. 19 2021 at 2:28 pm
i just want you to know(bc i just wrote my comment on the shattered reflection poem), if not for you i might have quit writing, or quit ti and forgotten writing. when you goton, i was so sick of what i did never being seen and wondering why nobody cared. when you started commenting on my stuff it changed my veiw on ti, and thus on writing. i dont know if ive said that before quite so frankly, so there it is.
What this poem might mean: When you're doing something hard alone, that's when the redemption you've found through your wisdom and experience truly counts.
I live by the train tracks, and I hear trains all day and night, so I chose the imagry of a train for a life metaphor.