Let’s drive

I want you to be driving

and for me to be in the passenger seat

on a clear day

with the sun shining.

Ideally, there will be cicadas and a light breeze blowing

and I will wind my window down.

We will drive until the cities are far behind us

we will be on a long, straight road through pine forests.

We will still be driving as the sun sets

but there will be no pressure to get anywhere,

to be in any other place at any other time.

Now will be now, and we will be in it.

The traffic will be light and we

will move faster than any other vehicle.

This will be a journey of joy on roads

never before travelled but somehow familiar,

there will be no signs, just the passing landscape

of contoured scenery and trees.

Although we will drive on and on

we will never tire.

We will be fresh, sharp-eyed,

enthralled by the world around us.

There will be an air of safety

and calm attentiveness

and a view of the world as though upon a cinema screen.

Our hearts will be filled with expectation;

at the far end of our journey

there might be a hotel room,

a bar and soft lighting,

a firm bed, clean white towels and room service laid on,

but there will be no need for a place to rest—

this driving will feel so good.

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