Abundant
Life
Passing through nameless
The neon sign of a motel flashes vacant
Inside a reprieve from the cold road
The endless asphalt stretching forward
Like a jet trail
Through the dark sea of land
Inside warm myself by the heater
Listening to TV evangelists
Sermonizing apocalypse
Across the electrified airwaves
Sitting in the motel restaurant I
Dig into thick hamburgers
Listening to Hank Williams crooning,
Your cheatin
heart
Walking across the parking lot,
A teenage couple are leaning against,
An old Buick making out
My thoughts wander to childhood
Limitless territories to explore
Abundant life spreading across the world,
A green revolution
The bright sun of justice reigning
Over our troubled land
Smiling faces looking out of store windows
People simply living, as though it were
enough
I hear a man cursing, a woman
Screaming invectives through the motel
room wall
As I lay silently in my bed
Myriad thoughts unwinding in my head
Hungers, dreams, regrets
The flotsam and jetsam of a life
Slowly the screaming dies down
Leaving only the beating of my heart
To keep me company