The suburban railway track
greets vineyards on both of its sides,
distant milestones have same words graved on their chest
that read “A Long way to go” ; in contemporary bold.
Counting shadows that run past the moving train,
less gruesome thoughts evoked the bag full of pessimistic emotions and few shaken beliefs and flung it open at once;
“God dammit!!
Not again!”
Panicking eyes,
paranoid face,
trembling fingers,
Whom shall I console first?
The train blows a whistle.
Again, a milestone reads aloud “A Long way to go”.
Blood vessels felt relieved for a moment.
Brain too paused the usual activity of loosely packed insincere words that talk about
darkness
and dullness both.
“Let it go!” , urged my own unfamiliar voice.
A complete silence wrapped my brain into dustless sheet of power, belief and optimism.
“Let it go!
There is a long way to go,
a really beautiful way to go ahead”.
Green valley on my left adored the smile on my face,
that faded a long ago and trapped itself in a still alive past,
now duly returns.
The train blows a whistle.
And the milestone reads “A Long way to go“.

Host Linda G.Hill says,"the Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “way to go.” Use it as a phrase or use it in its literal sense."
Her site : https://wp.me/p2CQXv-4bf

“Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.” ~ Will Rogers

Thank-you. Have a good time ahead!