My life Like these country Roads

My life like country roads

Long and endless
Blue Highways await
Curving slowly
Through small towns
Described with candor
By Least Heat Moon
Written in tune with their odd names
And people

A departure from what is home
To sojourn into my heart
America
Traveling the convoluted fringe
Of my mind
And the wide spaces beyond it
Stretching seemingly into infinity
Past the horizons of my yesterday

Dusty bars
Haunted by Texas ladies men
Where you can hear the jingle of their spurs
And sputtering of their horses
Will cure my awesome thirst
For what might quench my wandering heart
It is lost right now
It ran away
Trying to escape its gritty shackles
Let Lust and man be damned

I will taste the piquant beads
That collect under the lip of autonomy
Its moist offering devoured
I will lie back
Belly full
Letting my hair spill all around me
My toes curled into the beatitides of mossy Earth
And sigh freedom