Desolate Texas Highway

Desolate Texas Highway
© Surazeus
2026 07 16

Cold wind howls on desolate Texas highway 
where Darlene trudges to end of the world 
after running away from house of sorrow 
where her cruel step-father stumbles home drunk 
and beats her mother to steal all her money 
she earns working as a waitress all night. 

Death walks beside her on dark Texas highway 
but Darlene ignores his demonic eyes 
and sneers at thunder that cracks walls of Heaven 
by twisting rainbows into tangled knots 
to calculate process of righteous anger 
that guides her journey across the waste land. 

Black van stops on the naked Texas highway 
so Darlene runs into the howling wind 
but three men drag her to the hotel prison 
where old businessmen and youth pastors pay 
with coins of despair forged from bitter laughter 
to treat her like their sad wives they despise. 

Running nowhere on the bruised Texas highway 
after Darlene shoots mean pimp in the head, 
she stumbles barefoot in the marble palace 
where graceful ghosts worship Helen of Troy 
who tries to hide inside the golden idol 
to escape death from domestic abuse. 

When we meet on the dusty Texas highway 
Darlene gives me cracked mask of Lucifer 
so I play noble role of tyrant-slayer 
in revolution for justice and truth 
till she gets trapped in Tower of Rapunzel 
as popstar who sings on the stage of fame. 

Ghost horse in drizzle on gray Texas highway 
guides Darlene home to the small country town 
where Vulcan works as car engine mechanic 
who plays indie folk in the smokey bar 
with mercurial voice of sincere compassion 
for children killed in genocidal wars. 

Hitchhiking west on the lone Texas highway, 
Darlene considers secret of the moon 
that shimmers in silver lake of discretion 
with arcane formulas of moral code 
to program how our brains perceive the world 
as ever-shifting puzzle of tall tales. 

Devils dance on deserted Texas highway 
though Darlene unravels clock of her mind 
transformed from concept of the loyal turtle 
where the blind read lost books of tragic tales 
designed to hypnotize objective people 
with bright fantasy of the Afterlife.