A Screaming Comes Across The Sky......

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A screaming comes across the sky,
A rumble comes down the tracks,

At Mach 17 the thinnest of air is concrete,
Human flesh just carbon based fuel,

At fifty miles per hour,
The walls of the train are a battering ram for bones,

A screaming comes across the sky,
the grieving are consoled by heads of state,

A rumble comes down the tracks,
A mother searches beneath the stained sheets,

A screaming comes across the sky,
We feel your nation's pain as our own,

A rumble comes down the tracks,
Which body was the father of my children?

A screaming comes across the sky,
Passengers are now the honored dead,

A rumble comes down the tracks,
Passengers are now nameless dead,

A screaming comes across the sky,
A rumble comes down the tracks,
Forty dead in Zimbabwe,