Private Road

My heart for now is a private road

No thoroughfare

No heavy load

No slow traffic

No graphic details of colder collisions

No more stories to make me ache

I'll always love you, Venus

Still, you are mine

Why'd you have to take so much time in calling me?

I just want it to be easy like Sunday morning

Snow falls in silence and covers the green

Still, you can see where the birds have been

Hungry

But alive and free

Waiting

Waiting