A poem about nature and spirituality by David Tombale: Drive

Drive explores the connection between nature and spirituality.

 

 

 

Drive

 

I drove down this highway on a fast trek

 into the wilderness, I am searching for

 God amongst the beasts, the lions, the

 guinea fowls.

 

 I drove down this highway to watch

 the stars go down, white showers of

 starlight fall to lay a crown around a

 mountain’s head, gone yellow as autumn

 comes, as the winter threatens.

 

 I drove down this highway and ignored

 the road signs and speed limits,

 it’s my heart that tracks the needle,

 going sixty, going eighty, one twenty now

 and still headed west.

 

 I want to watch the sun set,

 I want to see these seas of fire

 burn the bushveldt,

 I want to be there when civilization ends,

 I want to drive this old jalopy into the falling

 halo of the sun.