The Station

Larry Colliflower 1971 (Hagerstown)



As the rain falls  softly on the ground,
He sits at the station barely making a sound,
He thinks about his life and about his plans,
Does he treat his family better than his old man?
He stopped the drinkin and the smoke,
But a look in the mirror he loses all hope,
If it’s not one vice it’s surely another,
He thinks he grew up colder than his mother,
Lookin at the mistakes he sure has plenty,
The future is blurry but hindsight’s 20/20,
His cup is empty, he walks towards the door,
He looks at his cup and thinks he’ll have one more,
He’s heard life’s not a journey not a destination,
He feels like he hasn’t done a thing but sit in the station,
Watching the trains go by missing the boarding calls,
He sees them come and go but never gets on any at all,
Get busy living or dying it’s time to make up his mind,
So he packs up and takes the train further down the line.

About this poem

A man contemplating life

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Submitted by lcolliflower on September 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AABCDEFFGBHHIIJKLM
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 887
Words 190
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18

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