Driving in the rain

I’m driving in the rain

At night

With the music up 
Loud enough 
To

Reverb in my soul

With

Bursts of lightening

Brightening up everything around me

I’m moving towards you

While my hands are on the wheel.

My eyes are peeled on the road

Yet

I still see you

Only you

I feel your breath on my skin

And it warms me

My arms and legs tingle

While each hair stands on end

I want to hold onto you

But you feel so far away

While

At the same time I feel like you are

Right

Here

Sitting in this car with me

Driving down this road with me

You are the only one I want to sit here

You are the only one I want to be with

Right now

While my eyes peer ahead at the highways

Side streets

And dark country roads

And

My car is filled with music

Songs sung both to you and about you

Each word meaning more than the one before

Painting a picture of a

Perfect

Love

The one who I want so much to be with

But can’t be

The one I forget about so often

When I get caught up in

“What

Do

You

Want

Me

To

Do

For

You”

While all the while you say

“Just keep sitting here”

But riding now

In this car with you

With my eyes glued on the road

I feel you

The real you

The best you

The one who I feel when I am the closest to you

The one who I remember when I’m looking back on the best 
Parts of my life

The one who I so often forget

When I get stuck on the

Wrathful

Vengeful

Authoritative

One

The one I push aside when I am so caught up in

Looking for a cheap imitation of you

In the skin 
Of a human

That one

I feel you now

While driving down this road I’m on

And my eyes are stuck on these city streets

While I want to be nearer to you

But instead

I feel you

Yet do not see you

I know that you are here

Yet do not hear you

I want so much to touch you

Yet cannot reach you

So I keep driving down these highways

Crossing each bridge

I come to

Hoping that one of these bridges might

Collapse

And I will end up

So much

Closer

To

You.