I wonder if you ever stay up at night thinking of me

Me, who you once held the door for and saved a seat for at dinner tables

Tables turn, I now know

Know I’m being dramatic, but the thought of you makes me wonder

Wonder how your thoughts of me have changed over the years

Years, and years of fleeting eyes and stolen glimpses

Glimpses once held now abandoned

Abandoned, as you left me in the car lot

Lot of times I wished you hadn’t

Hadn’t gone and left me yearning

Yearning both for the guy I imagined you to be and the car meant to drive me home, neither to last

Last moments with you turned sour

Sour as the smoke-filed air as I trekked home, the opposite direction of your taillights glowing

Glowing as a beacon of past mistakes and roads not taken

Taken away from me, leaving me alone and useless on the side of the highway

Highway became my way, and I know now that September night was for the best

Best thing that could’ve happened, for I sit behind the wheel now

Now it’s me chasing the horizon, no longer limited by your existence

Existence only now remembered in pieces

Pieces no longer relevant as I hit the gas and go.