Traffic Light
The woman in the back blowing her horn
She is in a hurry to go
As I comes to a complete stop
After the traffic lights turn yellow
Thru the glass she showed me the finger
But I paid her no attention
She then start using obscene language
That is too bad for this poem to mention
My girl friend had just text she loves me
And she was all I had on my mind
And although I was driving in my car
I was flying around in cloud nine
The woman passes me on the right
As the traffic lights turns green
Showed me the finger again
While still using a lot of obscene
Some times at the traffic lights
A lot of drivers seem to go crazy
And I wondered how it was like before
Traffic lights was introduce to society
During the early horse and buggy days
Traffic in the big cities was often heavy
The police officers had Avery hard time
Directing the intersections that’s very busy
When police officer William L Potts
OF Detroit, Michigan
Had a brilliant idea to do something
That would ease a lot of the problem
So he wanted take the railroad signals
And figure out away to adapt to street use
With $37 worth of wire and electrical controls
The first electric traffic light was introduce
It was installed in Detroit in 1920
On Woodward and Michigan Avenue
And his idea was adapted around the world
That today makes driving easy to do
The world’s first traffic lights came into being
When traffic consisted of wagons and pedestrians
The automobile was not invented as yet
And at intersections were a revolving lanterns
The lantern was illuminated by gas
Red meant "stop" and green meant "caution."
The traffic light was stopped on January 2, 1869
When it exploded and injured a police man
Can’t imagine driving today without traffic lights
This rude woman who curse me today
Didn’t even have the patience to wait a few minutes
For the green to give the right away
Today people take every thing for granted
We complains for simple stupid things
Never appreciating the brilliant minds
Whose inventions make our life’s so amazing
The traffic lights is the most used inventions
Some curse when it takes long to change
Without it today driving would be a hell
Without the “red, green and orange
My girl friends just text me again
She is the best in the whole wide world
And I will always love her forever
With all my heart and soul
Copyright © Kasim Ishmael | Year Posted 2013
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