Traffic Jam

We were driving along and suddenly,

we had to slow our steady pace

until we had to stop entirely.

We were held up in

a mass of vehicles,

surrounding and enclosing us in

 on all sides.

I could not see anything

but a sea of mixed colours

all dull under the granite sky.

We did not proceed forward for ages

when, like a slug, the entire mass

began to progress forward

baby step at a time

until we began again at our

origional pace and were

stopped by the exact same

multitude of dull metal.

Once more, we remained in the

same place, like a stranded

ship, and it seemed like

we started over again, but

just like the last time

we began with baby steps

while i wondered if once

again a couple of kilometers up

ahead there would be

the same swarm of insipid

shades,

encompassing us

for good.