stillness; my petite fingers loosely grip the black leather of the steering wheel, melodies erupting sweetly from the dashboard, their lyrics infiltrating my thoughts. line by line, word by word, they all take me to the same place. my eyes search the sky on the long drive home. the sky is a canvas filled with an artistic blend of magenta, red-orange, and gold, as the sun slips quietly behind the clouds & into slumber... this same piece of art reveals itself a long 6 hours away, sneaking into darkness above the quiet place where my music takes me; to the place where my heart lives for four solid months, four months of sunrises & sunsets where you stay 6 hours away. yet, across those 300 miles a single melody singing in my dashboard can erase the vast, empty space; in my stillness, I feel your presence. time & distance are drowned out in soothing sounds of rhythm & blues & explosive colors in the sky. all that I really see as I gaze upward day in & day out on my long drive home is a pair of brown eyes & long lashes, holding me tight with their gaze... "What distance?" they whisper, "I'm always right here, watching this same setting sun."