Driving

There's something thrilling about only being able to see up to your headlights. There's a freedom in the chills that run up your spine as you accelerate down the open road with only the moon as your witness.

Not another car in sight.
The trees and buildings have long disappeared.

Now, it's just the open road.

It feels like traveling through space and time. My mind clears... it empties so beautifully. I'm able to reinstate whatever sanity I felt slipping from my fingertips. All I want to do is drive.

There's a comfort in solitude on that road, but there's a different and better comfort with someone at your side. There's a moment when your head falls on their shoulder, and your eyes become heavy... Colors become blurs, and you feel the softest of kisses on your forehead. There's no way sleep itself can stop that smile. You know they don't understand what it is about these drives, but they understand it does something for you... There's no question about it. They wouldn't hesitate to have these drives with you.

Nothing can stop you in that bubble. The world is asleep, and all you hear is the engine. You look out the window with thoughts organizing themselves, but you feel fingers reach to tuck in loose strands of hair behind your ear... you can't help but slightly jolt at the unexpected contact. Then you look towards the suspect and know their love. It's in the small touches. It's in the way they glance at you as you sit in silence... drinking in the night. It's bliss.

The softness of their lips on your forehead illuminates the night as all the feelings you were hiding come out at night. All of your worries wash away, and all you can do is fall asleep under their protective eyes.

They answer your questions. They justify your fears.

It's okay to fall asleep. All the energy you hide behind slips away, and you realize you just needed that vulnerability, tonight... that safety in a car and road that only you know.

It's just different from being in the suburbs or city... an open road is different.
It's limitless...

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