The Long Ride Home

by Lexi Hilife - Leo

It's that time of night.  When you pass through little towns and all the lights on the main intersections just blink red.  I've been driving for hours with the company of a million thoughts in my head.  Replaying the days since I've been gone and the hours just before I left.  I can't stop thinking you won't be there when I get home.  Oh my God what have I done? I left on such a sour note.  Not the kind in music but the one on the refrigerator that I wrote.  Boy I sure let her rip all those cruel things I let slip.  I want to drive faster and hurry home to you.  But I'm moving slowly because I'm not sure what to do.  I want to hold you and kiss you, love you tell you how wrong I've been.  But now I'm pulling in the driveway and I can see the note taped to the side door.  I don't even have to read it. I know what it says "NEVER AGAIN"  And I drop down with a spiritles thump and hang my head to cry. Wishing you would come home and knowing because I was a selfish fool you have gone and said your last Good-bye.        Lexi Hilife

Reason for writing:

    A friend of mine told me how his marriage ended, I knew he was crushed, and I wrote this from some of the details he gave me.    

Birth sign: Leo
Date created: 2006-11-16 04:32:14
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:47:04
Poem ID: 71540

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