A slow and painful crash
Where one sees one's face
Approach the dashboard in infinite detail
Where one has time
To check one's fear in the mirror
But instead takes a suck on a vape
And puts one's foot down
And, speeding through abandoned suburbs,
Is caught in a storm of fire.
Carry me from the burning vehicle?
No, better to wait inside
And watch thoughts fly from window to window
Like glowing ashes
Until the mind is quiet
And the roof withers with embers
Lilac in their demise
For only in silence
Can the sphere of the stars unfold
And the old clepsydra drip dry, again.
Four hours and counting,
Frustration is really begun mounting.
The sun is beating down,
Causing sweat to drip onto my perpetual frown.
People are getting out and talking,
I expect some are thinking they would be better off walking.
Surely somebody can make a decision.
And clear a path through the site of the collision.
Most accidents are caused by people not concentrating,
All of these held up people are totally berating.
I hope there is nobody that is badly hurt,
But they need to be spoken to and the talk shold be quite curt.
Telling them about all of the people they have caused to wait,
Making some exceedingly late.
You are nothing, but a car crash, just waiting to happen
I can almost hear the vultures on the side walk clapping
Scavenging in the wreckage,hoping to feed their bellies
All eating their cake that is smothered with red cherries
As the street beggars on the sidewalk with cap in hands
Catching all the flying pennies, and making no demands
A paper boy stands at the corner; he’s seen it all before
Blinds himself from being a witness, he knows the score
The church bows its head in shame it fears recompense
Who knew what was coming, turning heads in pretence
Waiting on their handouts, that are, just so undeserving
And is an apology, an apology when it’s just self-serving
No one gathers at the graveyard to busy off to the bank
But stand in dismay, as each cheque, then drew a blank
Like this car crash you didn’t see coming left you cursed
As what you thought was your new found luck, reversed
When you drink and drive,
Your Accountability
Is gone. Here and now.
Thoughts speed racing
through my head.
Engine exhaust caught
in my throat.
Hands gripping the
steering wheel firmly.
Screeching of the tires
in my ears.
Random papers from
the glove compartment
scattered about the floor.
My world is skidding.
I'm almost out of gas.
Windshield wipers scraping
without rubber.
Transmission
slipping.
Telephone poles
like a toothpick
fence whizzing by.
Flashing lights
through the windshield.
When will it stop!
When will it stop!
How about now?
(PROMP:[3:29am] angel!jeongin lies next to you and hugs you as you cry, telling you to stop missing him “it’s okay, I’m here” PROMPT CREDIT TO -imagineskz.tumblr.com POEM BY- Tegan Elliott)
It was tears,
Broken dreams,
Broken hearts,
And a broken body,
Towed away,
He was young,
Seventeen,
He was young,
Soon to be eighteen,
He was young,
The clock shattered,
Windscreen broken,
Crumple zone in,
In on me,
Under covers,
Hidden in beds,
My minds crumple zone in.
Tears whipped,
Crumple zone out,
The bed dipped,
It’s all folding out,
Cover moved,
cuddles ,
Wrapped around waists,
Metal wrapped around young waists,
Gone,
New tears,
Never gone,
Praying for him back,
Wanting not to miss,
But him gone now,
forever ,
Towed away,
Too young.
Angel kisses,
Pressed against cheeks,
A simple halo,
Wrapped around bodys,
Hands playing,
With mine,
Kisses against cheeks,
Only cold breezes,
A freezing drift,
But windows locked shut,
Love wrapped,
In every touch,
Praying to stop missing him,
He’s too young,
Crumple zone in,
Angels kisses,
Crumple zone out,
“it’s okay, I’m here” ,
Silent words,
Crumple zone in.
Car Crash,
Whiplash.
Right before your eyes.
Driver,
Driver,
Why’d you drink and drive?
I’m taking you to court,
For you caused a man to die.
Car Crash,
Whiplash,
Right before your eyes.
Driver,
Driver,
Why’d you drink and drive?
Baby in the back seat,
You caused a child to die,
Car Crash,
Whiplash,
Right before your eyes.
Driver,
Driver,
Why’d you drink in drive?
You killed a mother on her way to the hospital,
about to give birth to a child.
Car crash,
Whiplash,
Right before your eyes.
Driver,
Driver,
Why’d you drink your drive?
You killed your mother,
and your baby brother,
Leaving to give you a ride.
Maybe next time,
You’ll think about your alcohol intake,
Don’t drink and drive,’
Unless you want someone to die.
Car Crash
Her last kiss was
a thorny stick pulled
through my heart
Her last draw
of cool fingers
on warm palms
a car crash
Smell the burning rubber.
Hear the screeching tyre.
Watch in awe as the wheels fly off
and the chassis catches fire.
Then avert your eyes.
Say your au revoir.
The casualties are packed in tight
Limp inside the car.
Two bodies hanging from annihilated cars
Collided hearts
Crashed at the lips
Creating daydreams with the impact of their fingertips
Worlds bleeding onto the jagged spears of shattered windshields
Love forming on the merged, crumpled hoods; Love the bodies can't feel
A marriage in death
Exchanging vows in silent breath
You may kiss the bride, the stranger
Upon this altar of a devastated Pontiac Grand Prix and a mangled Jeep Wrangler
hospitals. tractors. cars. agitation.
family and friends.
Enemies at the cross roads put aside for a loved one.
waiting, seems like forever.
wishing, hoping, for the better.
jail, intoxication, blood.
a car crash, a drunken fool.
not his fault, not all of it.
Stuck in the hospital, waiting for quiet release.
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