Involuntary Tattoos

I always cut them from my map
All the places I’ve been.
I drive carefully
So I never end up there again
But every so often
Some corner I’ve cut
Cuts into me first.
Some unexpected turn juts
Into the landscape of my soul,
Etched forever in my rearview.
I can’t figure the exact moment
I fell in love with you
It took me til now
To realize it’s true.

Incompatibilities and impossibilities.
Folklore and fairytales.
How cruel it’s going to be
To carry you with me down my last trails

While you are off somewhere starting new ones.

It’s already you I weigh everyone against.
No one else is nice enough to let in.

What an unusual collision.