A Road to Eternity: A Noir Poem of Darkness & Lost Souls

A Road…

The fragrance of gasoline
at a gas station.

Who is pumping?
Ten dollars a gallon.
Is that Chanel No. 5?

Tu conduis?
I’ll drive. You’ll get us killed.

It’s a long, long drive
on this forsaken road.

No red lights—
only far off,
blinking in the dark.

Don’t fall asleep.
I was just dreaming of you.

We’re lost.
Is north here or there?
I don’t know.

Come here.
Hold my hand as always.

Turn on the GPS.
Is it far away?

Far away?

Who knows?
I don’t either.

Just you and me.

blink

It’s dark out here.

Ink

We don’t know the way.

I can’t see anything.

I can’t either. 

silence

Where are you?

Is this a dead end?

 the end?