one way ticket

all my roads 

feel like a one way 

ticket to a cliffs edge. 

in all of my dreams i 

jump before look

ing to the bottom of the canyon 

and a miniature trampoline

hoping to bounce my way 

to the other 

end of these train tracks 

i still wait 

for your ear to press a

gainst. i still keep 

mine held tightly to the steel. i 

will always be 

at your other end i am 

always at your finish line. 

come barrel

ing around my corners 

please come train 

wreck me you know 

i spent every last pen

ny on our one way 

ticket to catastrophe   

but goddam you 

have never made me happi

er to have been so foolish.