Elongating the Subway Metaphor

So many times we forget,
all that has come before us
ran from underneath the subway line of our lives.

It's impossible to articulate the nuanced way of life.
The way it reaches us, the subway, choked up after running into too many deaad ends.

It leaves us bruised and battered in the back of our minds, comes into contact with people who've altered the face of it, yet we've never met them.

And from this vantage point, where the entire system is visible, it's easy to see how things are misunderstood: how stoppage can look like stagnation, how speed can look like progress and how efficiency can resemble madness.