Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Because I could not stop for Death ~ Wednesday, 21 February 2018

Nothing helps anymore
maybe if I'm lucky
the next car just won't stop

Only death can alert
authorities to pay
attention to danger

Brain damage bodily
harm no one else will care
they'll blame me as reckless

Only sleep will silence
my voice a silencer
a handgun the big sleep

Do your worst world to end
my life my spirit laughs
in the face of folly

You believe ignorance
is bliss because you read
it over and over

Again never knowing
the source of the quote
nor the poke in the eye

Still you persist to drive
with total disregard
for the lives of strangers

Kill me with one false move
I'll never represent
this country if you bless

Sleepy-headed runners
with their eternal rest
too poor for grave or ash

Maybe your insurance
will cover my murder
no matter how silly

Even vehicular
homicide sounds to ears
where insurance covers

The cost of accidents
no fault you live I die
no one ever to cry

Over my corpse halted
during my second wind
such is life such is death

Wishful thinking to die
doing something you love
during sudden impact

Ask me if I'd rather
die in some other way
other than a car crash

I run for miles and miles
in rain in snow in heat
almost any weather

To meet my finale
like a scene in a film


life goes on that's a fact

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