Full Speed Behind

This next writing is actually a little off the beaten path. It was inspired by something I had read that has nothing to do with college life, but the more I read it, the more I feel it can be generalized and apply to much more than where it sprang. I challenge anyone to come up with the inspiration for this one. Give it your best shot.

The reason based in memory
Racing full speed behind
Bobbing on the screaming train
Chasing the unbearable
Infinite steam presses on

Suffer insanity or
escape to madness?
To limit the self to a cage,
a container,
and two stings a day
A refusal.
To deal for hell
A contract binding
with no jacket
straight into the incomprehensible
Bleeding to torture innocence

A young girl fallen to his hand
paralyzed by his mind
He places a ticket atop her wound
The next station at her side
Soon she’ll be traveling full speed behind