last I heard
was miles from here
strung out
like you were before
walking down the places loved
was never wrong
for wanting more

you came along
when wandered so
backward from a long goodbye
I found forever without words
– lost my own
within your sighs

where I am
a thought away
passing somewhere while you dream
eternities
have come and gone
moments fell as verse between

sixteen songs
from memory
plays the best of might have been
losing sight of every star
of where we were
when love began

dusty boots
are faded red
heading some place I don’t know
counting steps between the cars
each far away
where love might go

changing course
for distant lights
another town won’t know your name
won’t know the way I was before
was miles from here
before you came

. . .