life's highway

 

summer's setting sun-

blaze of orange, red, and bronze

reflected in the windshield

as I travel down this highway once again

I know this winding road by heart

like following the lines on the back of my hand

but every time I travel this way

there's always something different at the end.

miles added to a journey

that I don't know will ever end

I take comfort in the false control I feel-

my hand guiding the wheel

in turn trying to control the path taken

no one can control my destiny

when I am driving my life

but I have a destination to reach-

have deadlines to meet,

friends and family to live with me

pressing the pedal down

urging my mechanical steed harder and faster

trying to ease the pressure on myself

the wind whips my hair back

tugging at my soul

trying to set it free

here in my car, I am my own

no one can harness me here

I let go of the pressures

that have been driving me

let the wind take my soul

and I take the road less driven

with a new destination in mind

riding my wild Mustang

into the sunset

of an unknown beginning