Empire Builder

The apocalypse is incoming Only moving slow and unevenly The empire builder returning east Like the rising blade of the guillotine North Dakota metastasizing The oil shales and the entropy And the waves of darkness fold over me As the dying sun goes down The dining car in my assigned seat My neighbor's conversation is turning ugly A labyrinth of conspiracies Proving he is good and he's got enemies. Tiny points of light I see haphazardly Scattered in the void like so much bird feed And I hope it's enough An empty hallway a phone ringing It goes on forever no one's answering Concept of god ever slippery Are you outside of time? Are you in everything? I'll find the sacred buried in me And I will cut it out while everyone is watching It will not be enough I know you're feeling Like you're overmatched Like the world's against you Like the deck is stacked But don't get started You're smarter than that You and I know we both know that Everybody's angry Everybody's lonely Maybe it's hopeless And maybe love is not enough But let's not rule out the possibility