Personal Eclipse

I remember the dry grass of Nebraska, gray to distant blue
 I stopped on hills like slumping shoulders, car cooling, I took off my shoes
 I drove out west with my sister, she talks more than I do
 When she fell silent, still I'd miss her
 The sound of the wind coming through
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 I remember the smoky cups of coffee at The Continental Divide
 Mesas rose up there beside me, I felt like I'd arrived
 I walked on the streets of California to the wail of car alarms
 Men would shout out to me passing, a stranger with crossed arms
 I remember the subtlety of canyons, black by the roadside
 A cut in the rocks as I was passing, just a glimpse as you go by
 If there's something you always are choosing, you may not recognize
 If there's something you always are loosing, something disguised
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 Lately I found myself lonely, I wouldn't have called it that before
 I always took it as a comfort, what all the distance was for
 If you can't leave clean as a statement, so true that you almost wince
 If you can't leave, you get yourself taken, like a personal eclipse