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I feel the rumble of the wheels, and the tumble of my heart Trembling, a look outside, as the landscape fades, and quickly grays, to become swallowed by the dark Adrift is the smoke, that chokes the sky, that I must leave behind... Blurring as the evening light, is sighing, quite resigned The steam has fogged the prairie plains and I can't help but cry again. With tear-stained eyes, I see my own reflection I've left the world I knew before, that left me so rejected I sit upright, my corset tight, I must get through the night My muscles are stiff, and I am weary, afraid The train heading west.....where the crimson sky fades Where the grasses will sway, and the cattle will graze and a stranger will pay...to share farming ways I hope he will share a smile and be kind What is ahead, only the future will find Tomorrow, under a different sky, in a brand new way I will wake up to a different sun, and to a wistful song of yesterday 'Though, I cannot find a star, through the drowning dredge of rain Tonight the moon, I have left behind, wears a worried face again I pray the sun will rise anew, and fill new skies above I pray the life, and the stranger's hand .....will be the one I love __________________________ 1/24/15 "Railway Journeys" Contest, Sponsored by Shadow Hamilton