Alchemic Verse

Push to start, stall raging heart
Prayer of safety
Get in gear, sleeve up the tears
Drive to escape me

Move to drown, in blaring sound
Thoughts that would break me
One more trip, white knuckle grip
Night roads erase me

From heavy home
Strike out alone
In sanctuary

Find the dark, drive fast and far
Prayer now screaming
Back the din, four-minute hymns
Beg intervening

Unleash cry, shout at the sky
Pleas for redeeming
Path is lost, voice paid the cost
Of broken dreaming

Pew driver’s seat
Pilgrim’s retreat
To sanctuary

Green light glows, stains glass window
Prayer falls silent
Churchbells call, with rise and fall
Of distant sirens

High beams shine, twin candles blind
The asphalt altar
Stone and mud, body and blood
Where hope would falter

To edge of Earth
Borne and rebirthed
By sanctuary

Turning back, replacing mask
Prayer joins verses
Dashboard songs, their sermons strong
When route reverses

Face again, where this road ends
Dread eats warm lamplight
Disembark, pull in and park
Until the next night

When heart requires
I spin the tires
Of sanctuary