Past. Present. 
The Train pulls them both. 
The Train is Both. 

Creating a future by their presence. 
Invitational Theatre
on the stage of the rails. 

Motion. 
One Direction
Forwards. 
Slow. 
Stopping
Or Fast. 

Class 47, chugging her song. 
Functional romanticism
Of a transitional age, 
between Steam and Electric. 


The In between of
Future and Past
Writ large
In British Rail Blue. 


Imagination torpedoed into existence
Red makes her scene
Known. 
In the now. 


Capturing all that was
In times' most delicate new. 
Transitions drive,
Past and Present
Into awakened visibility. 


Just a train. 
Painted to celebrate
200 years. 
a billion passenger miles
Where lateness and accidents only make the news. 


The still silence
of the forgotten
truth. 


Past, Present, Future beholden
Driven
Pulled, Guided, Measured
Permitted
Metaphor along the rails.


I stand. Soul alive
Awakened to see
The drama of the unfolding
Words before me
History behind
Present now
Future driven into
Wheels flow along the rails. 


Soul awake
with the connection
and free flow
of space
between
past and present.
History and Meaning. 
Functionally whole. 
Artistically held. 
Together. 


Soul, dreaming
Of histories of magical journeys
and desires for more. 


Acknowledging the moment. 
Of Philosophy
On the rails. 
Pulled by a blue class 47.