*Note for context:

this is inspired by Nordbanhof station, also known as Ghost station, a train station in Berlin which was cut off by the Berlin Wall, yet remained a functioning passenger track throughout the war. It was an escape route where many people died trying to leave, and is still used as a functioning station today .*

The chill of the station is bone deep

Abandonment built into its walls,

The walls of terror and divide

Staining the ghosts that populate this station.

This station, though technically functioning,

Holds the ache of the divide never forgotten.

Only could this place of bone numbing empty

Be a place of hope for the desperate.

Now a numbing reminder of human atrocities,

But once a light at the end of the train tunnel.