Eight-line Poems 2

Truck Driver

Truck Driver

I knew a man who drove a truck,
we called him Zee;
to know him was a stroke of luck
for he was wise and free.

But loneliness on distant roads
betrayed him in the end -
it drove him under heavy load
where fallen highways wend.


Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 10.16.24
Prompt: Truck driver.