All roads lead somewhere. Some of them lead to heartbreak and pain, although you’d never know that’s where you were headed as you’re near-floating down smooth pavement. Some of them lead to smiles and happiness, despite that they’re full of potholes and gravel and signs screaming things like SHARP CURVE and NO SHOULDER. There’s a road paved with empty whiskey bottles and broken smiles and shattered dreams. It’s littered with southern charm, Fitzgerald quotes, and Taylor Swift lyrics. It leads me to you. It may be rough but it’s short, like the first page of a secret story jotted down at 2:00 a.m. in a locked diary slipped under the mattress so I can sleep with you.
I’m glad I decided to take that left turn at Albuquerque.
you forget who you are
after days at the sea,
you forget who you are
and you remember who
you’re supposed to be.


