today i came down the same road,
the same one as the other day,
but today with a different heart
neither heavier nor freer
beating faintly without determination
the world seemed smaller and narrower
the mist clung to the pavement
drifting up the sidewalk
i drove down the same road
i drove down so fast
i lost control and the world
became a strange blur
everyplace was like home
at the start and end of it–
home was me.

today i entered through a different gate
met by the overwhelming colors of new faces
the song of new voices
i took flight through this bright light
my heals by the wings of my heart
i wondered at your gaze in my reflections,
wondered how you made it here,
it must’ve been the laughter that
filled my lonely unambitious heart
that filled my eyes with wild hope
that brought back that same
feeling of your closeness,
the new road was no wider,
the path no straighter,
but this time i ran.