Tonight In Bilbao

I walked the old eroded streets,
 A million miles now have gone behind me.
 Walked in the room, soaked up its fumes,
 Surveyed the faces I am lying to.
 Gave what I had, I gave my heart,
 Though I was broken and falling apart.
 Gave for the memory of a friend,
 Not for myself and not for them.
 When I was done, I met someone,
 She came in from the storm so bright and welcome.
 Her friends came and swept her away,
 Disappeared like coyotes off on dark high plains.
 I looked across the river so still,
 Trying to remember
 Where it was last night i laid my head to sleep,
 Where the empty night hung heavily over.
 I left Bilbao,
 Went to Madrid,
 To Barcelona, to Pamplona
 Where every ghost unto me known
 Haunted me.
 I flew in over the red clay roofs
 And floated through the clouds as they swelled and shook
 The bronze tinted land and sea
 And houses sunk in hills like yellowing teeth
 When we touched down, opened my eyes to the sun
 The dizzying air filled my lungs
 And just as soon, she'd woken me,
 My eyes blurred, my mind heavy.
 I left Milan,
 And went to Rome
 Carried her aroma on to Verona.
 And all the kindness she had shown
 Was only a dream.
 The flurries danced on cold grey tombs
 The frozen lots as store front loomed
 As last rays of daylight died,
 I'm blowing into my hands, clearning my eyes
 And as the train pulled away from Cologne
 The noise dimmed once so loudly it had grown
 And as the engines burned through the night
 I stared off at far-away lights.
 I left Berlin,
 And I came home
 To sleepy potions of blue oceans,
 Where my love so selflessly
 Awaited me.
 I long to feel her light so warm
 My thoughts racing to the places
 Where her room invitingly
 Awaited me.
 As the ocean brings in its high tide
 As the darkness sets upon the beach
 As we drive, we look out at black cows
 glowing store windows in old gold rush towns
 Over the bridge, the city sparkles so bright
 our hungry stomachs smell bread rise
 dim light of the television, bedding soft down
 and taste the perfect night as foghorns sound