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Car Keys

Leave your car keys on the leather seat

I promise the world won't move without you

So there's no need to try to get so ahead of yourself,

The roads will wind around your restless mind

Please don't get too dizzy trying to read between the lines

of the GPS directions you never listen to

The set destination is only far

because you keep turning away from the arrows

And theres a beautiful mystery in the flickering of your eyelashes

blinking against the cinematic sunset

Those colors couldn't give off a fraction

of the colors surrounding you

I know your hands play in the dust

tracing curved lines the same way

you stumble when balance plays with your legs

falling into him

 

Leave your car keys on the counter

because your footsteps can carry you

onto the carpeted floor, the collage of a blank white wall

painted in sound as substitute for aesthetic

Why get ahead of yourself

if he is facing in front of you?

You've learned to ease your restless mind on your own

yet his hands take the worry and wash them off

a caress across your cheek like a gentle waterfall

you find yourself babbling down the stream

with no map in your hands, no worry of a destination

just a journey on its course

There's a beautiful mystery in the flickering of his smile

lit up like a melting candle that's brightening your face

This heat doesn't represent a fraction

of the energy kept between you

I know your bodies trace lines against one another

weaving more and more into existence

of two universes colliding

a passionate destruction of walls you are no longer keeping

 

Put your car keys into the ignition

there are so many roads to drive down

but somehow this time I know

you will not get lost.

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Sep 8, 2016
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