Private Road

My heart for now is a private road
No thoroughfare
No heavy load
No slow traffic
No graphic details of colder collisions
No more stories to make me ache
I’ll always love you, Venus
Still, you are mine
Why’d you have to take so much time in calling me?
I just want it to be easy like Sunday morning
Snow falls in silence and covers the green
Still, you can see where the birds have been
Hungry
But alive and free
Waiting
Waiting