The Freedom Train (Star Spangled Banner cadence)
Cumbres-Toltec Railroad
Colorado & New Mexico
Summer 2007
He points to a TV
from a hospital bed
in a room filled with trees,
branching tubes bearing life’s fruit.
Trains fly over a bridge,
as his parents prepare
for a journey abhorred,
knowing nothing can be done.
He is faint and alone,
though surrounded by love,
while life bleeds to black
as his train pulls away.
Now he boards the ancestral
engine and waves
with a smile freed from pain,
his soul lights the way home.
–Mommy
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