Upon These Tracks

We stayed so long upon these tracks One could forget how much time passed between whispers Whispers because we were too afraid to make bold statements If you sit long enough, you can feel the vibration of the movement That metal on metal scraping sound and the shriek of something heated But no train ever came You used to say, "it's probably just the rotors" or "maybe it's the brakes" I would jump up from the tracks every time i felt the vibration But the sound never moved me either "Could be something hanging, like the muffler" Still you never checked It became clear to me as i began to jump up from the tracks Even from the sounds, the shrieks That you would never believe the train would come And so i will leave the tracks so that when the train finally meets you I am not there to witness it crush you