By darwin
Date: 2004 May 26
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12:57-Wednesday

some nights while you are sleeping
i miss the misty highways
that one moment before the sun rises
and you have been driving all night
toward an unknown destination.

i should have been scared that one night
i slept alone in the appalachians, with
nothing but a blanket to cover the
windows, but instead i breathed in
the damp vented air.

when i had finally arrived home, my hair
standing from layers and days of sweat
spent driving through a country i had never
before explored.  one arm burnt from hanging
out the door in chicago traffic on the loop.

those days come to me when you roll over
for the night, your bare back miles away
and your mind silent in sleep. and i remember
another this morning on my now routine drive
and thought

i told him i would do anything.