Run The Gauntlet

This is on a brighter note.  I don't know exactly what it is about this one, but I've always been rather fond of it.  It's simple, it's light, it captured something I was feeling at that moment.


Run The Gauntlet

In my car, driving, smoking,
Smiling, laughing,
eating grit, spitting,
tapping on the steering wheel
to a song I love called "Driver's Seat"

Can't ignore the beauty
of this day, early Summer,
this back country road
flanked on each side by trees
in full, leafy bloom.

Running the gauntlet of Green,
for the love all that is still green,
drive faster just to see more,
What a day, what a perfect day
To be alive, to be right here.

Lift me, carry me, upwards, onwards,
wings of Summer warmth,
Sun viewed through closed eyes,
face uptilted, receiving light,
energy, hope, happiness.

In my car, driving,
Smiling,
Moving,
Living,
Running the Gauntlet of Green.