Trains ran along the sky

Once upon a time,

trains ran along the sky.

In every car--a child,

a lover, a student,

a conversation, a glance,

a song, a dance--

Huge and alive,

these steel dragons, 

roaring along

the busy boulevards.

They carried workers,

doctors, the sleepers,

the dreamers, the blind,

the light, almost deep red--

bleeding in at sunset.

Once upon a time,

trains ran along the sky

like blood flowing through

the metropolis

until the city died.