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This Lonely Highway
Idol Wheel of Chaos | Week 16, #1
Kako no ashoito (memories/events/influences from the past)

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Wheeling through the dark,
light lost to the stars
and the city far behind us,
we travel the barren highway
toward a distant promise.
The moon gleams cold as ice.

On a looming hilltop,
a lone steer stands, starkly
black against the dimness behind it.
The unfenced land crowds close,
the highway an inky ribbon
stretching into the night.

Nothing thrives in this desert,
in this unforgiving land
along the road to somewhere else.
Time waits frozen, as unyielding
as the desolation
of this lonely, forgotten place.

Wakeful, I watch the hills unfold,
mark a field light's deathly glow.
Ghost songs on the radio
float up through the static
in this in-between nowhere
caught so very far from home.


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Date: 2025-12-04 11:12 pm (UTC)
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I really liked this poem. We took road trips as a kid and I enjoyed the night riding most of all, when almost everyone was asleep, except Dad who was driving and often me.

I miss my dad. Due to circumstances, I don't see him often. I miss those times that felt like just us.

You draw with such beautiful imagery. Thank you for sharing!

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