deep cycle

the mental fatigue is dependant on lasting a lifetime

locked in the motions of a gridlocked jam

with a grille that steams from a cracked block.

when the gears strip of their teeth and the pistons cease to churn

the mind sputters, misfires, backfires and dies.

you spend a lifetime thinking down and talking down regrets

the good times never spent

and how you could have gone but you said you can't.

it's all relative so you pull the brake, cut the wheel and spin;

hands off the wheel, eyes off the road, mind off the map.

just because you let go doesn't absolve you of where you've been.