In and Out of Love

birds gather and sing they’re lined outside my window as I awaken to the touch of sun and a faded dream I cover my head with a pillow a soothsayer says a new life I wish for a miracle now that my friend and I no longer see each other and the forecast calls for rain I look for an answer but it’s not the answer I want I call some old friends that will have to do for now a story lingers in my heart it longs to be told and told again I’ll order an iced tea and flirt with a waitress in a diner before I put a dollar bill or two in the palm of her hand I’ll drive toward sunrise and drive as the morning stirs office buildings will cast shadows as I take the one-ways in and out of the downtown I’ll turn off the radio and listen to echoes of my exuberant youth when packs of boys and packs of girls drove the streets back and forth and shouted to each other through open windows— we called it cruising