1000 miles

I close my eyes
and metal on wood takes me back
The sun is shining
and I’m 1,000 miles away
Before you bled onto me
and a war made us all take sides
When a morning in a ghost town
Brought a beckoning silence
Air floated with possibility long since abandoned
Here the stillness descends upon me
Until I can’t breathe with its weight
You’re all sitting there watching
The air is thick with expectations
You’re sitting there waiting
for my to bestow gratitude deep within you
and I’m running away
I close my eyes
and I’m 1,000 miles away

2003 6-3