Tracks of Decay - Light This City

Here comes the train

Pained and wailing

Eye focused on you warily

But still unblinking

Is this the one I’m supposed to bring

For this next journey

Endless and complex

Injuries you’ll never be prepared to dress

A hundred stops you’ll sleep away

Then wake to wish you hadn’t and

You take your time packing light

I never could comprehend

How it took you hours to finally end

Up with a list of twenty forgotten things

To the naive eye not the headlight

You might appear to actually care for something

But you’re not guarding this life with your own

Just risking mine

What a fucking waste

This time

Remember when I said you were bound to make another mistake

Was it stupidity or a self-fulfilling prophecy

Self-fulfilled

I should say

Unless you were planning on

One more fuck up today

Another idiot’s dance

Are we just supposed to watch and laugh

We’re far from amused

In fact we might as well be lying on the tracks

Here comes the crash

Too fast to catch my heart

Propelled from my chest while my body

Lurched and halted with the brakes

While everything else seems to slow around me

I can’t believe this is happening again

I was never meant to be here

I complain

Because for a moment the ride was steady

But your devastation was inevitable

Expected

Yet unavoidable

Like the cycle of natural wildfire

The peril is far too close

To allow any delay in my stride

The deaths and wounds are far too real

For me just to stand and gape

Wide-eyed

Like the crowd

That can’t help themselves

Or us

I’m sorry

But I won’t be entertained by your train wreck life

Will it be neglect or abuse

That puts you underground

Your tracks are sore from overuse

And they’re finally wearing down

A scar for every accident

New waste to block the way

All aboard your train wreck life

Last stop

Tracks of decay