75 mph into South of Nowhere

Cruising underneath a starless sky,

When I hear from you I’ll know you’ve arrived…

Feeling as if I’ve lose a friend,

This part of me never will mend.

Jerked awake in the middle of the night,

Fearing for you from day to night.

A fear soon made real

Underneath a starless sky.

When night became wrong,

And day became right.

I lost my friend, my brother, my life.

One fearful day, one dying night.

I watched you lay soulless that night.

Peacefully though, no pain in sight.

Painfully still to see you that light.

Breathing slowly on that iron lung,

The blank stare on your face never hung.

Emotions held high for all to see.

Wishing I still knew all of me.

Two hours too late, fifty years too soon,

Forgiveness is all I ask of you.

Believing it now will never end,

My memories of you seem to extend.

As they die peacefully into the night,

One dying day, one long night

I close my eyes and see you still

Driving away on that stormy hill

You only saw her, not me, nor them

I wish only you could come back again

To say goodbye and hug me tight

I fear I’ll never feel just right,

Never safe, nor comforted, or still.

But at least you died happy.

That much I will.

Her face on your mind,

So beautiful, so free.

You seemed so lucky as luck can be.

You died neither wrong, nor fast, nor slow,

It was just right as you did go.

Watch over me now as I continue to grow

Becoming a person you used to know

One more day, one minute a time

My only wish is to remember me tonight.