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