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Night Train Screams

Night train screaming down
The hill, grinder for
Metal rails in Earth’s dust.

Painful reminder of war
Carrying troops to battle.

Her screams echo those of 
the dying soldiers.

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Michelle Faulkner

January 24, 2019 at 11:40 PM

I can hear the screams now, the cost of war-

M. L. Kiser

January 25, 2019 at 11:34 AM

It was horrifically noisy for several years and those trains ran all night and day; prior, there were only three; two in the day; one at night. Thanks.

Caren Krutsinger

January 21, 2019 at 7:48 AM

War has never seemed this real.

M. L. Kiser

January 21, 2019 at 6:08 PM

Wow, it's a description of the local trains back when the Afghan war broke out; for several years those trains were so loud; I'd hear them all night when usually there was only one during the night for several years during that war. It was unnerving. Thanks.