Landscape of the Night Time Road

Crystal designs of frost formed on the wind shield
maze of intricate designs in the night
Silence gazes down from the pale moon.
wisps of ice crystal waver on the road.

Pristine mountains rise up all around me
I can make out their form in the dim light
covered with snow that has fallen on snow.

Clock shows midnight and I am still two hours away
to shatter the monotone I turn on music
as lone train rocks and rolls on the track
next to the winding highway, lullaby
of strumming wheels rocking and swaying
on the way to somewhere that is only different.

Distance is lost in songs  of love and lost love
Light delineate the shadow of a bull elk
I slow into a disruption of my rhythm.
The creature fades into the maze of forest.

Smoke pours from silent house
of denizens sleeping in cozy dreams.
Forever I am driving these dark highways
as wheels meet the road and songs create
a form of poetry for my soul.