There were a couple of books I would read over and over
one of them told a story about how God didn’t write poetry.
He gave man language and the devil taught them metaphor.
God was amused that Adam wrote poetry, but didn’t pay the snake no mind.

Well, it was the only thing Adam and Eve took from the Garden
as God cried tears and the couple felt naked in the cold land.
‘I hope they know I love them, but they broke the contract,
now they’ll know what it feels like to have to face the eternal dying’.

I kept reading that book and felt the devil pushing my pen
forcing me to love the people I know will hurt me in the end.
It’s hard to see past the dust rising off the old road.
You still consume me as I try to head back to the highway.

I’ll never fortget the night I called and never left;
you draped in alcohol and oxy, calling me to your bedroom.
I still wonder why you asked me to join you on that journey
but I won’t ever forget how we rode hard, fast and for truth.

We traveled the backroads where we were alone to love each other.
We found comfort in the stolen light of the sun as it moved like mercury.
One night you went to get beer and I haven’t seen you since
but I can’t go after you when I am the father of our greatest achievment.

Yes we loved the moon and danced in the twilight, sleeping past the dawn,
There will never be one who can be you, but maybe she will slide into my heart.
It just hurts too much to even think that once we ran and I was your man.
She’ll only hope I can forget. so we can move on down a new road.

I guess I’ll keep moving, take this new friend with me to the end
Or at least somewhere near Oklahoma or Tennesse.
Places no one else realy want to go,
It could be Orgeon or even Vermont,
they’re all the same, some are just devoid of memories.
Maybe she’ll say turn around and say that I am already home.

It really is that book that keeps haunting me, how we were Adam and Eve
or maybe you were God and I was the Devil.
The one thing that sticks with me, though, is that it was poetry
The one thing I have left that really can pin down love.