| This is the first of three poems that I wrote for a dear friend from the Governor's Honors Academy. We started to meet and run around Huntington while my Mom took night classes at Marshall University. On one of those nights we got lost as she was showing me around the town. I thought that it would be a neat thing to write a poem about. So, I decided to write one around a palindrome and then make the ending the same as the beginning and then connect the two. The creative layout of the poem represents our aimless driving. |
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| Step on no pets was the name of the song |
| As through the dark night we both glided along |
| Over the hills and around many curves |
| While the skill of her driving helped sooth my nerves. |
| Alone in the dark, the light of the moon, |
| The warmth of the car, and her fragrant perfume |
| Came to my senses in the black night |
| While the road went by swiftly under the light. |
| Stealthily we cruised as we spoke of times past |
| The sound of her voice, I wanted to last. |
| "Where is the way out?" she turned and asked me, |
| and then it was clear we were lost as could be. |
| We laughed with each other as we turned around |
| In order to search for familiar ground. |
| So over the hills once again we did fly |
| While the dark winding road passed swiftly by. |
| At last we did find the road that we sought |
| And she said that it had been just where she thought. |
| In a few minuets we arrived at her steps |
| And the name of the song was step on no pets. |
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