The Highway of Death

Like a lightning bolt from the sky
With unending fury
You swept down on me and struck
On this lonely desert road


You saw me try to run, you saw me try to hide
-And you killed me
For you and me both
This was a road that led to nowhere


I was a thief, and so are you
My loot: Junk contained in a stolen car
Yours: The black blood that runs through your veins
Remember! I died that day to feed you


Fire leapt towards me
And I was in hell
The flames tore through the skin of my body
And clamped my heart


And then you struck again
Fearing a tortuous spasm
In a body cast in carbon
A David slain by a Goliath


On The Highway of Death
We were all there, Miles of us
Frozen by heat
Tracing a scar across the desert


I was a day's curiosity in your world
And, in between Oprah and Letterman
I was seen, and forgotten
By numbed minds


But today I ride the wind
As ash that travels far and wide
And as my children also die to feed you
A fire smoulders again