Make Your Way Around

I'm laying in the stillness of disregarded dawn

I heard you rise an hour ago, by now you're long gone

I don't blame you for running, picking up and moving on

We left no verse unsung in our belated swan song

Freedom’s chimes flashing tolled in tantalizing sound

Sometimes you have to back it up and make your way around

Familiarity breeds contempt? But that's just too severe

You have your reasons for wanting to get away from here

I know at times you've wished that I would disappear 

A cloudy wisp dissolving into thinner atmosphere

Fertile resentments swelled into a budding mound 

Sometimes you have to back it up and make your way around

I once heard someone say, “I don’t believe in time”

I guess that’s why you’ll always stay in some recess of my mind

Standing in rooms we never used in another paradigm

Teaching me a lesson from a forgotten nursery rhyme

Reminding me that always you were westward bound

Sometimes you have to back it up and make your way around

November 2016

Keep Up The Pretense

Drive away, don't look back, 

There's nothing left to see

Tire tracks soon fade, 

This feeling's temporary.

What's in the rear view mirror 

Is better where it's at

No one even questions 

Our conclusions about that.

Grit your teeth, don't let it out, 

It's not worth the words

Roll the windows up so tight 

Nothing can be heard.

Pound the wheel, pound the dash, 

Now you're out of sight 

No one's here to see you, 

The day's fading into night.

Keep on driving, the road is long, 

You're not at it's end

Just like every other day, 

Keep up the pretense.

November 2016