

There’s no
one out this far ahead
No headlights coming close
The road just stretches out instead Like something I can hold
I used to fill the quiet up
With anything that moved But now I let it stay the same
And drive it like the truth
Empty lanes, nothing in the way
No one telling me to stay No one asking where I’ve been
Or who I was back then Just a line I follow through
Every mile feels more like new I don’t need to name it
now I’m just here somehow
The sky
is starting to turn light
But not enough to see
Just shapes of things on either side That don’t belong to me
I thought I’d miss the noise I had
The pull of something known
But there’s a comfort in the fact
This space is mine alone
Empty lanes, nothing in the way
No one telling me to stay
No one asking where I’ve been Or who I was back then
Just a line I follow through
Every mile feels more like new I don’t need to name it
now I’m just here somehow No signal,
no directions
No reason to explain
Every turn I didn’t take
Is quiet now, the same And maybe that’s enough for me To
keep the speed I’m in Not fast,
not slow—just moving Without where I’ve
been
Empty
lanes, open in a way I never let them stay Now there’s
nothing left to fill And I don’t think I will Just the
road and what it gives All the space I’m learning in I
don’t need to turn around I’m already out