Bus Ride

Just a random memory
I'm twenty
On the overnight bus
Indy to New York

Back to college
After Christmas
Window seat alone
Staring at silo silhouettes

First Christmas
After dad died
Dozing on and off
I awake to find
I am not alone

Someone must have boarded
At Zanesville
Maybe Pittsburgh

Sitting next to me
Slumping next to me
Head on my shoulder

He smells of sweat
Cologne
Cigarettes
Exhaustion
And something else
And something else

Fear
Fear
Fear

He's sleeping on my shoulder
Snoring
I'd never smelled fear before
I'd never smelled fear before

Five endless hours
Five
Endless
Endless
Hours
I am a cushion
I breathe quietly

Until dawn
Squealing brakes
He jerks awake
In Philadelphia

He nods
He smiles
He exits
Like nothing happened

But something did happen
But something did happen
I'd never
I'd never
I'd never smelled fear before
I'd never smelled fear before



Credits
Writer(s): Ian Woollen
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