Highway Lanes

Poem by James Record (2008)

Highway Lanes © James Record, jim90 and JrGamestorm 2008

I am a highway lane running side-by-side with another lane,
we were always together, nothing could keep us apart,
at least, not until the split,
neither of us liked it but it couldn't be helped.

We were forced to go separate ways, the other lane,
that had been beside me for so long carried on as normal,
while I went off in a completely different direction.

I missed being next to the other lane, it now had the other lane,
the one I never saw because I can only see what's now, I was blind,
I longed to be back with the lane I once ran beside,
but the more I wanted the further I was taken away.

Though one day my luck changed and I started to become near,
and nearer to the lane I once ran beside,
we joined back together as we once were,
only she was different, tarmac, not the old concrete I knew.