Memories

Kate · #1 (**permalink**) 08-17-2007, 04:35 AM

Freshly showered you lie in bed; the grime from the road, the sweat of the day, simply washed away like rain. You stretch, like a long, sinewy cat, feeling the muscles in your body expand & contract, bones snap & crack, relaxing your entire being.
Thoughts of the day come unbidden, & as you sink deeper into the soft comfort of the night, random images flash across your conscious miond like a slideshow on fast forward.. bits of the ride you left behind mere hours ago. How the corner came so suddenly & made your throat constrict...
How the cracks in the old backroad were so old, the moss, & grass was growing up through it, giving the road a green tinge...
How the sunlight made your eyes seem to see red as you blinked..
The smell of dry, dusty, hot pine trees, & hayfields cut several days ago..
The rumble of the motor, the vibration lulling you into a deceptive state of unawareness...
The feel of the wind as it caressed your bare arms as gently as a lover, feeling like a silk jacket...
The sting of the bugs, and fine sand that speckled your skin sporadically..
The smell of summer heat..
The itchy ticklish feeling of sweat drying as fast as it trickled down your chest..
The cars that weren't paying you any more attention than they were the road, & the impatience you felt waiting to pass...
The intense sickening heat when you stopped, from the pipes, the cars on either side of you & the temperature sun worshipers gleefully announce 'hit record highs'..
How damn Cold the sudden shady areas felt, & the shivcers you got for a split second, before re-entereing the blast furnace known as the main highway...
How tired you were from the day. Heat does that.

You yawn, smile, flex your hands, feeling the imprint of the grips still, even now.
As the last light fades, you're sure you hear another bike, it's pipes fading in the disatnce...