Peace Train - Beau Beausoleil

[Lawrence Robinson]

Peace Train

At this station
there are no announced departures
or arrivals

Only the dead and the dying
carried in grief and memory by those
who remain almost living

Only starving children
who crowd lethal food queues
that are miles of chaos long

Only multiples of idle trains
sitting upon an endless series
of tracks made of rubble

Only a heartless station master
who burns each new timetable
as it is printed

	- Beau Beausoleil