Passenger

Drifting through the night

Lights merge into one as eyelids close

Steady purr of tyres on the road

Little jolts as wheels start to turn

Rocking me awake, familiar signs

Houses that we’ve seen

A thousand times

Highway fades away in recent mind

Holding onto echoes of a dream

Of comfort bed, and reading in the warmth

Creeping up a well-acquainted street

Reaching home before the break of dawn.

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