maybe it's time to close this book
'cause i was never very good
with endings
and you were never very good
with beginnings
life was a game
we read about
and bought at the store
but when we took it home
lost the instructions
and played no more.
I drove 150 miles today
to look for a sunset
and found only a never-ending
twilight haze
above each street corner
gas station
--open 24 hours a day--
mocking my need for sleep
and so i drove on
circling, circling
waiting for you to appear
vaulting from the sky
like the great God
i imagine you to be
and then you just fade
into the sunset
with a smile
as wicked
as your touch.