Highways End

The light of day unravelled
Drove rain in fists of wind
Trounced the sound
Shrill its shearing fabric

The wet black top hurled back moonlight
In shimmering frantic fractures,
Divided so evenly by the white dotted line
Rolling down the highways infinity.

Until the highway collided
Into the sunset of your eyes
Ground molten pieces of glass
Impacted mirrors a last glance

Emotions warmed the dampening rituals of summer
Drawing first blood from sweated flesh
Love came abruptly like mercury in our solution
But the rolling path of tears
Gave our love some continuity

In mansion of billowing curtained rooms
High above the winding shore
Gulls shiver and surrender
Too close to sail over what beckons
Attempted the barb wire of lies too often

Your eyes more alive than the first dawn of life
Now surge in dense waves many leagues beneath the sea
Feel heat lightning wait in textures of wind
For the crackling moment of sound that never comes