On The Train
I.
Characters in a play / Strangers on a train
Entrances & exits / my own entrance & exit
Names & faces/ tips of icebergs
Coming together
Moving together
A dance of personalities
For a short eternity
On a journey
To where we are
Always
And ever.
II.
Mournful, yearnings cry
Across the desert
Now happy
Now sad
Jabbed in the heart
With a golden spike
Seeking penetration
Into myself
With nowhere to go,
I’m on my way
Lord, no other way to go
And it’s a lonesome road
And a rocky road
An ordeal
To bring alive the senses
To move the mouth
To simply ask
For light.
(October ’90)