Westbound Toll

We drove into the east

Into the sun rising

Over glistening waters

The perfect double ‘H’

Stood on the horizon

Blue through the haze

Thick metal hawsers

Like impossibly ordered

Spider webs

Reaching from road to sky

And it’s easy to imagine

We’re in a toy town

When the sky

Is so far above

That even these

Heaven high arms

A million miles above me

Fall short of touching the top

And we’re eastbound

Our souls trundling along

On wheels made of bone

And it’s like going home

Like going back…

 

(I was looking at

Your photos today

And I was jealous

Because you’re all so happy

And you’re all together

While I’m here

Being happy alone)

 

But tomorrow we’ll be

Heading westward

And paying the westbound toll

 

(Haven’t I given enough

Going in that direction?)

 

Bet you don’t even remember

Me

 

Because that’s all part of the

Westbound toll.