The Midnight train runs again

[Guest guest]

When you awake in the middle of the night

and your mind is empty, dark, and

silent, and the silence and the darkness

seems to spill over the world, and never

end. Do not stir from that. Stay on board,

that's the midnight train. It has come to

take you home, it's home.

 

If you stay on board for a few seconds, if

you recognize it for what it is. Then

that's it. There is nothing else, there

will be no longer a you.

 

You are the midnight train and the train is

all there is. Even when you feel you are

not on board, you are it.

 

The darkness vanishes, the world appears,

but that is no other than the midnight

train. The silence vanishes and you hear

the rattling of wheels, your thoughts are

chanting their hypnotic tune that is also

the midnight train. The whistle blows, you

feel it as pain, but that is nothing but

the train. The train labors belching smoke,

you see it as ignorance, but fret not it's

nothing but the engine doing its job.

 

The tunnel of death might loom ahead, but

fear not, under or above the train will

never stop.

 

Pete