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The Switchback Train
By Rella W. Hawkins

Clickity click...cllickity clack...
Sounds of the switchback train
Switching the viewers from side to side
Switching the visions from high to higher
Climbing the mountain sides.

Switchback!
Recalling my highs in ecstacy...
Revisiting my pasts in imagery.
Sash-shaying across my memory
Smoothly reminiscing in harmony.

Switchback!
Higher up the mountain we switch
Across and up the mountain we reach
Jiggling remote memories
Where my trains have traveled
Jogging rare memories...
Unraveling my reveries.

Switchback!
Arriving at the ruins of history
Visiting the miracles of the mystery

Overwhelmed with their destiny
Overcome with my own posterity.

Switchback!
It's now!
It's not!
It's later!
It's never!
It is now...

Switchback!
I look up
Seeing you smile...
And do not doubt
Our destinies.

in peace and love...rell

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