Drive To Nowhere Poem by Elizabeth Padillo Olesen

The wheels rolled on
passing by fields and valleys,
bridges and silent rivers.
We spoke without words
saved only by the roaring
of the dull machine.

The car drove on
And the rays of the sun
almost blinded our tired eyes
And yet we just
could not stop our aimless drive.

We continued to pretend
that silence and muteness
were part of our world,
consumed by the noise
of that moving little car.

And as long as silence
and muteness prevail,
we simply drive to nowhere.