seventy

driving around today
tearing my mind from any thought
feeling the motion of the wheels,
forward, forward,
on toward elsewhere
and it was only sun and sky
trees and road
houses
grocery store lots full
shopping carts and consumerism
suburbia

i thought of summer fading swiftly into fall
of places changed, remembered
the things i have seen here before
the feelings i knew then
now
there is apathy here
a quickly growing indifference
it does not hold me anymore
i've let it go

when the leaves change
falling in cooler breezes
the cross country team will run their route
football games and homecoming
everything bending toward a future
everyone going through these same cycles
and i think of all the other me's around here
and i know then, that i must escape
and pretend that nobody knew it all along

somewhere in the distance
someone shoots fireworks

cross your fingers that i'll make it
where i want to go