Mail Order Bride

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


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1/24/15  "Railway Journeys" Contest, Sponsored by Shadow Hamilton

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