Train to Nowhere

The crimson sky was turning a midnight blue as you woke from your slumber with a rocking motion as if you were on something that was moving and at a high rate of speed, but the last thing you remember was laying in your own bed just staring at the ceiling while the sun shone and the birds sang outside your window. Did you fall asleep? If you did, where are you know and how did you get here? The rocking continued as the darkness flew by your window, yet you could not move and get up to look out the window, but just lay there.

Panic started to set in as sweat began to form on your forehead when you heard someone call out, Tickets. Get your tickets ready. You then start to panic cause you can’t move. Ticket, I don’t have a ticket, I don’t even know where I am and someone is calling out tickets, where am I supposed to get a ticket you thought to yourself. As you try to move the voice seemed to fade off into the distance till you can’t hear it anymore, then silence. You try to move your arm and to your amazement, you were able to lift it and then your other. Pushing yourself up, you now realize that you are on a train, and by the speed it was going, it must have been a bullet train, then you hear the scream of the train whistle and as the train goes around a bend you noticed it was a steam engine going as fast as the wheel could go and still gaining speed.

Tickets, get your tickets ready could be heard getting closer. What to do? You have no ticket so you reach for the door of your cabin and look towards the sound of the voice. Tickets, have your tickets ready could be heard coming from the distance so you leave your cabin and go in the opposite direction towards the speeding locomotive.

As you pass by the cabins you look in to see people from different eras sleeping in their bunks, with each cabin looking as if it was that time. Tickets, get your tickets ready brought you back to your senses only to see the shadow of the conductor coming around the corner. You took off running once again to come upon the dining car where individuals sat and talked, not from this planet anyway with each other as you walked by with each of them glancing your way as you made your way to the exit. Only to be stopped by a smooth silky hand as it took you by the arm and led you to a table. As you look out the window different colour lines flash by as if you were travelling faster than the speed of light, tickets, have your tickets ready. And there he was, the conductor, calling for tickets and just passing on by you and carrying on his way as if you weren't there at all. What is going on here? I turn to look at the individual that led me to the table and you were alone again, laying in your cabin not being able to move once again as the sky became a light hue of blue as the night was ending and the horizon brought on another day on a train to nowhere.

How many stations have flown by now? You have lost count a long time ago, you just keep going and going wondering if the track ever ends or if the locomotive is making the tracks itself as it travels through the cosmos of space and time. Travelling this fast you would say that it was out of control and believe me, I would agree if we all didn’t have our own out-of- control train that we travel every day. This train would be your train of thought of course, taking you to many different places and times, doing your everyday tasks only to speed up your train once again. Thinking of many things, never ever stopping only to keep speeding out of control until that final station comes.

So, as you fall to sleep your train is ever going with the conductor always looking for you to get his final ticket never to catch you as your train speeds out of control through this life you live and may the conductor never catch you.