That Day, a Life Crushed

That Day, Life Crushed I was resting on a lake dock that was in deep decay it ran fifty yards out into the seamless water that day my baby brother had went to swim with his friends a normal summer day that shone with splendor and peaceful was the soft blowing wind only fate was awake and moving ever forward. There I was in peaceful solitude , resting gazing at the lapping waves as they spoke ignorant of what had taken place only moments before the passing of a young and promising life, my brother. Sun still beamed, wind still blew and life changed a truck came racing across the bridge I saw my best friend waving at me franticly then I heard, I knew tragedy had befallen somebody somebody I loved dearly. Moments later, the force of truth crushed me into a ball it was as I feared, a death, an unimaginable horror my baby brother was dead, my fourteen year old baby brother gone, gone , gone! Electric current had destroyed his life destroyed my life, sent me into a seven year rage I said my goodbyes in a quiet rage and vowed that God, God would pay for this! And so it began a terrible journey into a dark abyss one that consumed and slowly ate my soul my soul it ate with relish and glee. I became a punisher of God! Yes, such misery did I heap out by the bucket by the ton and ate it's glory until- Seven years later, light came into me as I slept I woke one morning to find that the one punished was ME! God had told me but I refused to hear Now I heard and that truth crushed me again! The road back took time but seven long years was over! life returned, joy returned! Majestic love returned to reclaim it's treasure-- my soul! My soul rejoices to this day, this day I see God stayed with me as I ran away! I, he that runs no MORE! Robert J. Lindley 06-30-2014 My first ever write about my brother, Billy Joe Lindley fourteen year old and the girls adored him, that summer electrocuted by a faulty electric pump at a friend's house by the river. 1976, I think about him every day since, he was an angel compared to me and why, why did I live! ---------------------------------- ---------------------------------- For the Sad contest.....Any Sad Poem, sponsor, Broken Wings