Highway Dreams(Work in progress)

A solider never dies his spirit lives on forever through the actions of his gun.

I yearn for those days. The days of travels,

I scream for the open road where the mile markers tell time and the sunset writes out your life. I toss and turn in my cage knowing that I can't run free with the wild wind that blows through my window. Oh life give me back my wings for I need to fly.

Let me touch the sky let me feel the desert sand let me kiss the hot black asphalt where memories were laid out.

Highways and onramps run through my veins.

Those days my spirit yelled out with an echo as the dust devils danced across the open fields. Those days my mind flowed with clarity like water poured from a stream my words plain and to the point my objective was never obscured from view.

As I look out my window I see blocks and blocks of bricks laid with foundations and nails, nails that hold me down to the lies that man has created. Give freedom unclip my chains for my feet hurt from dragging through your streets of signs and lines that lead no where. Can you give me peace once more even if it's just a for a moment I wish to the stars holding hands with the moon as the wolf howls at the black abyss.

Take me, for a ride tear away my pride and let me see the truth that's buried deep into your soil.  With my keys I turn you on with my thoughts deeply ingrained with love and pain I feel your roar. Will you dance with me underneath the rain, will cradle me in your bosom in the middle of the plains oh, open my eyes for my light has faded into a deathly grey. These days I wander with nowhere to go these days I search for your exit only to find a dead end nestled between the concrete glass mountains that hold out your beauty.

Strike me with envy hold me with lust tease me with sin for my heart cries out for you in the dead of night as I lay in this bed. Tears of beads spilling from my palms there smooth texture roll across the floor like marbles being bounced off the wall. Open the door let the sunshine creep in tear down the blinds let life flow through my pane. On my wall you hang looking back at me with a faded grin you say come in. with ease I see you form in my head with struggle I'm unable to refrain as your images begin to pour over my landscape like syrup you ooze over my uneven ground. Tonight as you sleep I hear the rushing engines of travelers with nowhere to be, hoping to catch the wind my limbs begin to stray. Up to your edge my vessels begin to cringe for one last hit one more blow one more trip. To the outer galaxies I will go past undiscovered universes to claim my peace.