The Sunrise Of Love

At a hundred miles per hour speeding down a road once traveled. Hanging on tight to the steering wheel as if it’s really going to help. It worked before, now I’m having trouble. Keeping this car on the road; my destination might as well be as far as the Cepheid stars pulsating in the Centaur galaxy There is meaning here as I look across her fields burning in flames of summer. Consuming all peripheral vision with a heat that reaches all boundaries of land and sea. Something never experienced appears unreal in the tunnel ahead; seeing her on the other side. I’ve felt my heart race before but not ever this fast. I don’t think I’m moving quickly enough, such energy, this intensity, this….   Background and poem by Gary Hodges

"The Sunrise Of Love" by Gary Hodges