I am the reckless voice of a thousand nights spent driving down
highways too close for comfort when hometown familiarity
was everything I was trying to escape
only to end up face to face w/ cold
concrete Bank Street(s) where reality was shovelled
in my lungs, where fatality was imprinted on my veins
& where circumstance became a real reason for
those overpasses where I constantly searched for a friend..
you see, the strangers I’ve met have melted into my memory
& given me such capillary strength that the whole world seems like
it’s right in my own backyard too often, & it’s never too late to
extend an energy to save another’s skin..
warmth now pours from their eyes & I realize that it only takes a second
to change a life, a striving moment can be stretched out to last a lifeTIME!
so we survive in these streets of small towns or big cities
& we strive not to repeat what’s been taught to us by silver & living room screens:
I am the reckless voice of a thousand days spent walking on & along sidewalks
on dirt roads
on early morning wet grass
on those highways heading home
Sep 25, 2011
Sep 25, 2011 at 2:40 PM UTC
I am the reckless voice of a thousand nights spent driving down
highways too close for comfort when hometown familiarity
was everything I was trying to escape
only to end up face to face w/ cold
concrete Bank Street(s) where reality was shovelled
in my lungs, where fatality was imprinted on my veins
& where circumstance became a real reason for
those overpasses where I constantly searched for a friend..
you see, the strangers I’ve met have melted into my memory
& given me such capillary strength that the whole world seems like
it’s right in my own backyard too often, & it’s never too late to
extend an energy to save another’s skin..
warmth now pours from their eyes & I realize that it only takes a second
to change a life, a striving moment can be stretched out to last a lifeTIME!
so we survive in these streets of small towns or big cities
& we strive not to repeat what’s been taught to us by silver & living room screens:
I am the reckless voice of a thousand days spent walking on & along sidewalks
on dirt roads
on early morning wet grass
on those highways heading home
