The Train Kidnapper Poem by Ulas Basar Gezgin

Nowadays I want to do it a lot,
It is difficult to understand or tell:
I have to kidnap a train, kidnap a train!

Driving it faster and faster, faster and faster,
I should be whatever passes at an eye wink speed...

Although the rascals would play with the railway switch,
Do you think it is easy to lower my speed after this...
The big train and only me... The big train and only me...
Nobody would know my loneliness and train's...

Let the indicators jump up, faster and faster!
I should tilt Earth's orbit more and more; more and more...

Our passage through the tunnels would not be noticed much...
The officer would not take note, he would say "it was just the wind"...
The households in the nearby suburbs, here and there,
For the first time, will not be woken up by the noise...

Forward! To the direction: The rainbow! The rainbow!
I should take a pair of each animal, flower and bugs...

....

I was too late to notice: The rails don't go, don't reach there...
I was too late to notice: My world beyond, as its name implies, is beyond...
I was too late to notice: This train is not the one I meant...
I was too late to notice: They broke the switch to one direction...

If my dreams didn't come true today,
Who can claim that tomorrow would be like yesterday? ..



2002(*)

(*) Based on a true story featuring a mentally unstable youngster kidnapping Metz train in France in 2002.