I Drove

I drove into the fading light

Until there were no cars in sight

Until there was no center stripe.

I drove

Eyes fixed on the road ahead

My rnind convinced of what it's fed

I could have turned around

Instead. I drove

Just put yourself into my shoes

Consider all the avenues

All the don'ts and all the what

you does

When everything she ever said

Carved lazy circles in your head

Some things are better left for dead

And nothing you can say will

change that

I drove until I met the dawn

The questions in my mind's eye formed

My sense of space and time

Were gone without me

I drove beneath the desert sun

Just contemplating why we run

The sign said US Highway 31

When time allowed and time between

Are seldom heard or rarely seen

Imagine it's a time machine or

something

Asplinter of the life we spend

Together measured end to end

Is equal to the time it takes

To rock your little world and say I

knew that

Anxiety, my shotgun friend

Would not shift or fade or bend

Steered my rnind from start to end,

I drove

I reached the point of no return,

my body ached, my spirit burned

All objections overturned,I drove

I drove until the passion died

Then I popped the clutch and let

her glide

As all that stuff unglued inside of me

you start to wonder what it is

That locks the hand into a fist

And dives into that little twist of fate

A penny earned, a penny wise

Holy Jesus, damn your eyes

When conversation slowly dies

Takes that long to realize she means it

I drove into the fading night

Until there were no stars in sight

Until there was no center stripe

Until there was no center stripe

I drove