I
drive at night, trying to keep my mind off you
Counting down the hours, reaching through the fields
The orange
city glow is no match for the sky’s dark blue
My eyes are wide, reflecting
street lights, and how I feel
You are there, dissolving into my monochrome
windscreen
Floating gently over the hills damp with early dew
Its droplets in the black and purple
sun gleam
That human full of nature that is you
The animals and woodlands strain against your skin
Melded to
cogs and
wheels of steel that slowly turn
The symbiosis of machines, the perfect
königin
With forests’ fires and flowing furnaces brightly burn
I watch you recede, chasing the
moon across the sky
And turn my
full-beams on with a contented sigh