Reeling Through My Timeline

I’m sitting in the train station

Waiting for that train

To put me in a capsule

Bring me back from where I came

The place to remain

Until I am complete again


The breezy breeze is breezing through my eyes

Reminds me of the ocean nearby

And the time standing by


I walk inside the capsule

To take me through both space and time

Through the Universe collide


As the train’s new tenant

I take a break from the present

Retrospecting my mind

While in the prospective time

Letting my memories chime

As I’m sitting in that train

Freed from the mental chain

Away from the past pain

Close to what I deem my claim


I’m back in high school

Reeling through the different days

With a beer can in my hand

Worth a few dimes

Surrounded my friends, laughter

And our epic cheesy banter

As the wheels kept a rolling

On their endless tracks


Tunnels, bridges, villages and valleys

They all stretch on one side

On the other side

Windy rivers and mighty crescents

Going up but never growing


I take a bite from my mom’s sandwich

Local ham with sweet peppers

On white loaf with butter

All fresh

I sure can’t forget the taste of it

Not a million years I can’t


As the reeling in the years went on

I switched to a different timespan

The college days

And the people that went

Along the way


This time it had to be about the teachers

The gurus

The knowledge mystics

The information magicians

Passing on facts

Terms

And formulas

To every generation

Day

        After day

                          Year

                                    After year

                                                         Time

                                                                     After time


Distinctly I remember

The times with these guys

How everyone gave their moments

To make us brighter

Wiser

Sharper

Altogether just a tiny little smarter


One by one

I remembered

All of those who made

A lasting impression

From the eccentric

Nutty Dutch teacher

To the mad artsy scientist

Business English fella

To the rad Economics guy

Telling stories all the time

And getting drunk with them students

To the handsome statistics gentleman

Whom they all called the Playboy Man


These people gave their times

So we, student, could create our own

Live accordingly through them

Echoing the moments, evermore

Wasting time, nevermore


Now, back in the train

The present to regain

Back in the capsule

To take me through both space and time

Through the Universe collide

Prospecting my mind

Inspecting my time

Letting the current moment chime

3 thoughts on “Reeling Through My Timeline”

  1. Andrei of the Morning Walk

    This train
    Is the train that brings back a memory
    Is the train tha your student eyes could see
    Deep in the past
    Nostalgic, so fast
    When did the time pass by?

    I know
    We already passed by the College Station
    And we had a beer, or two
    Maybe more
    We partied through every frustration
    Savored inebriating celebration

    It leaves
    Us with the hangover of Life
    With a headache, and a dying thirst
    Woken up next to our wife
    Our wife, the ever-changing Fate
    Perpetual one-night stand

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