Bridge May Ice Over

We clear the last red light

You don’t slow the talk

Your words fill up the dash

Before I can start

I catch a space — it closes

You turn it as I go

Like every path I reach for

Already bends to you

Hands on the cold plastic

My air just escapes

Streetlights flicker

Lost in the haze

I lose my own phrasing

With you and your ways

Your voice won’t break

It stays on

Bridge May Ice Over

Bridge May Ice

You drive every turn away

Bridge May Ice Over

I find the line

It slides again

Before I get to know it

Bridge May Ice Over

Static keeps dividing

Blur into one

Still on that sentence

I left miles ago

I try to turn the radio

No signal plays

You’re just humming static

That fills up the space

I drive — it keeps going

Past where I am

Signs blink on the edge

I don’t look back

They blur into something

That you never said

Your voice won’t break

It stays on

Bridge May Ice Over

Bridge May Ice Over

You drive every turn away

Bridge May Ice Over

No room for a word

Or a breath left in

I open my mouth

And the silence comes in

Just breathing out

Then I disappear

You’re still talking to me

But I’m not really here

Your voice won’t break

It stays on

Bridge May Ice Over

Bridge May Ice Over

You drive every turn away

Bridge May Ice Over

I find the edge

It slides again

Before I get to know it

Bridge May Ice Over

One lane

I’m gone

Your voice

Still runs

Just silence

Now heard