Replanted

The horizon cracked from side to side They scoured the continent with a lash Broken, ashes, fiery clashes The locomotive howled into the gloom The whip encroached, we tried to hide Boots came knocking on my door that night By the rhythmic rocking of a train I was taken through, away, uprooted They need me feeding their machine of fright We were flesh and spinning gears we ground, grind from meal…