I Killed You Today:
thanks for the memory

Copyright ©1999 by Richard J. Sereday Jr.
All rights reserved

I killed you today,
but only once,
only for a second,
that's all it took.

Just one mistake
from you,
and a little help
from me,
then BAM,
your end is here.

You see, the right lane
was not moving.
It was full.
Full of right turners.

And the center lane
it was flying,
flying like a bird.
I was one of those birds.

And then you were
flying too.

So what kind of fool
crosses traffic only if
they can see that
no one is coming?

A live one.

And what kind of fool
would cross even if
they could not see,
see the thing that would
end their life.

A dead one.

Five tons of truck,
40 miles in an hour.

Two tons of car,
pulled right into the path.

No time to stop,
no time for anything,
but to die.

Physics, physics,
and life, then death.

So here I sit,
wondering why,
why you picked
this day to die,

and here I sit,
wondering why,
why you used me,
to help you fly.

But don't thank me,
the memories of it,
I'm sure will be
all the thanks
I will ever need.

Day and night,
night and day,
till time, it does ends,

because,
I killed you today.