Cattle Train

Those sweet sweet kisses caressing the moonlit night 

Memories of pasts present future 

 Water laps at my heart, as tracks of iron bid thy passage north 

 Heavy heart does it go into the rising suns glare 

 As tree after tree, town after town shows me mankind is lost 

 We can no longer see the humanity for the people 

 Too many now 

 We scurry like ants beneath the feet of God headlong into oblivion 

 So soulless do we kill for no other reason than to see what it is like 

 Rusting tracks glide by, a hint of green on rotting sleepers 

 A hint of mother natures easy return 

 Her slight wink to those that know better 

 Mankind is but a whisper in time 

 A flea feasting on the blood of the universe 

One day to be shaken off in final annoyance

by an entity we have sacrificed so many for, in the short millennia of our existence 

To war century over century, fighting for nothing 

 Fighting for something 

 That never-ending desire to kill 

 To love 

 To fill the world with spawn to keep the blood line ticking along 

 In some false belief that we shall live forever if we do so 

 As Gods to our future generations, a rock to lean upon 

 Ten commandments to live by, to rule by 

 To kill by

The water laps silently through my window 

 I watch her gentle ebbs and flows, they seem stifled in the silent clackity clack of the trains constant motion 

 A mute child trying in vain to make the world understand her words 

 Hush now child, no more fussing 

 Lap against your shores, 

 Give us what we demand 

 Let us take without thought 

 Cut through the rolling fogs, and lonely hills covered in mist, 

 True beauty to behold, and the perfect route to the city 

 Selfishness and petty demands come from ignorant minds 

I fear death, yet despise life 

 This pathetic version of what we call life at least 

 Fishermen stare blankly as my train flies by, no doubt laughing at all the cattle on their way to nowhere 

 How many in this cattle train look back at them with even a hint of envy? 

 How many even realize they were there? 

 We seem to gaze upon the world while never actually noticing its presence 

 Walking through life in a dream state of self destruction 

 We wait at a station on this pointless journey, and in silence a moth flies up to my window 

 As silent as the flowing waters, it sits upon the glass to show me the intricate marking upon its wings 

 Wings so fragile if I were to touch them they would cause her to fly no more 

 As always I am alone in this moment… the only one to notice 

 We trundle away towards the north, to continue my soul sucking journey 

 Lost now in the workings of my mind 

 Darkness creeps in, as the rising sun blinds my sight

I fear this coming night as I will once again go in search for my hotel ghosts 

 Towns pass by in a blur, each one swelling to the point of bursting 

 Nowhere is safe from mans never ending need to take over 

 To spread out 

 To conquer 

 Ignorance 

 Selfishness 

 Humanity 

 Virus