The sky unfolds its copper seam
A train departs from half a dream;
Maple smoke above the track
Recalls the warmth that won’t look back
The whistle fades the silence grows
A hush that every traveler knows;
We lose we find we leave we learn—
The sun insists that all return
I breathe the chill my eyes renew
The world begins its tender blue;
Each start demands we shed the night
And walk unweighted into light
The rails extend unending kind
Like thoughts that run through open mind;
The journey’s truth the day has shown—
We move to meet what we’ve outgrown