Vampire

Water towers along America, an entire country’s history plays out across your bus window, the driver says he’s been with greyhound for 26 years and seen every corner of this land a hundred times over. Married my sweetheart right out of high school, ran to the court house and straight back to school after, that was 38 years ago now and I just say ain’t that something, because it is. 

We stood on the front row, replacement parents with all the pride our eyes could bear, as a young man walked across the stage and accepted proof of how far he’d come. The valedictorian stepped up, said I wasn’t lost so much as diverted, and you think maybe her words apply regardless the road you are walking. You’ll get where you’re meant to be going. Just put one foot in front of the other, just do the best that you can, honey if you could see what I see here from the front row, your eyes would be brimming, too.