The Roads Less Traveled

We turned off the main highway
summer break
because that is what we do

She wakes us better than the rest

I’ll tell you why-

beyond the steering wheel
past the bugs splattered on glass
across the dust-covered hood

we live but a moment

Boulders, bunnies and rain, no lights

this is where we truly live
where no one lives anymore

Just like us now
stuck in cities now
dead-end jobs now

dazed and empty of desire

The road less travelled promises redemption
with each
blind
curve