Tag: Route 66

Times I Never Lived

I like to reminisce
About
Times I never lived

They seem to be much
Grander
Than the times I’m living now

I create them like
A dream
All lofty and sublime

Believing there’s
A truth
To the beauty of the lie

Curious it seems
To experience
Relief so profound
Exposed to
Climate so unforgiving

Among the desert’s
Many victims:
My haughty ego
And petty worries

Matters unworthy
Of a life
Worth living

Harder to hit
More fun to drive
A pleasure to touch
A challenge to follow
Tangle of wire
Plateful of noodles

Arc vs line
Hard vs Supple
Crooked as a fish hook
Straight as an arrow
The well-trodden path
The less-travelled fork

This old and rickety bridge
Which it seems I’ve been on forever
Must some day end
And leave me on the other side

The road may go
Forever, on and on
But, sometimes
I really need to be
Paying attention
If I want to stay on it

Shadows of time
Moments passed
Left to memories
In fading ink

Shadow event
Captured in light
Held in coloured silver
On fading film

It was a stop along the way
A place between

Here

and

There

Holdover from a time
Of neon
Air-con
And movin’ on

The stops along the road
They come and go
And sometimes come again

Though when they do
They’re not the same

But when they’re gone
They’re lost forever

As night drops down
Headlights on the road
Looking for a bed
A shower

Stale cigarettes
And mildew
Saggy mattress
Flickering lights

This is not a place
That time passed by
Or has forgotten

Time is always active
Always present
Always changing

Only consciousness
Forgets
Or represses

Time is always moving
Cultures move on
People move on