Train to Chiang Mai
In a waiting rail car
low setting sun coloring
the platform and the sides of cars
beer can emptied
and my senses full of light
- the dread of the unknown!
In a waiting rail car
people talk
and are happy.
I read a book
of philosophy,
I too am secure
in the thoughts
and emotions -
an instinct that all
will come out right.
In a waiting rail car
ready to move out into
the space of a
darkened sun -
so many ways to live
only one way to die.
In a waiting rail car
low setting sun coloring
the platform and the sides of cars
I am lost in the world
- Chiang Mai awaits.
