This Train

Photo by Ron Walker: Tokyo, 2002

Tantamount to nothing
this train rides
back and forth forever
in a long dark jacket

The future is tunneling
through the mountain
with a vengeance

Death is burgeoning and
blasting with a pressure
that's unrelenting

Everything will be declared
We can hide no more
from the shrill hard whistle
in the night

Our dreams will break
Our sleep will be nil