This morning I took the keys, I just got them last night. I was running late for school and you and I had a fight. I had a lot on my mind but I still drove slow on my way. I didn’t even turn on the radio. I was thinking of college, and going away. Someone took my parking spot and I had to carry so much stuff. I’d forgotten to study for 1st period and the test was really tough. I forgot my lunch on the counter and couldn’t find any cash. In photo I dropped my camera and I broke the flash. My project partner never showed and I had to speak in class. I didn’t have the report done and I finished way too fast. Work was extra busy, I didn’t have time to call. I’m really truly sorry, I know you worry and all. I told you this morning that I was going out tonight. That was what fueled the fire, and started our big fight. You told me not to drink as I ran out the door, but you must’ve forgotten, I don’t do that anymore. I was late to the party and there was alcohol there, but I gave that up so I had a rootbeer. We were supposed to stay there, we should have spent the night. But his mom came home and they got into a fight. There was another party but I was coming home. They shouldn’t have been driving but we all just wanted to go. I was driving home real slow. I was thinking about you. Must be he didn’t see me, or the red-light he ran through. The car shattered around me and I flew onto the cement. The other guy got out of his car. I didn’t see where he went. It hurts so bad and I can’t move at all. Where are you now, when I need you most of all? Paramedics keep touching me but no one’s saving my life. I just have to lie here and die. He goes on with his life. Part of me is missing, I know that that’s a sign. There’s blood all over everything and most of it is mine. He doesn’t even know what he did and I pay the consequences. I didn’t even drink tonight. I just doesn’t make any sense. They pull a sheet over my face and put me in the ambulance. I hear a paramedic say “she never had a chance.” Now, as they bring you in, and you’re forced to look upon my stony face, I miss you, and need you, and want you to leave this place. Remember when I was little, and you two would hug with me in between? Keep that memory for me, in place of what you’ve just seen. You look so sad and hurt, and you hold each other so tight. I’m sorry about this morning. It was a stupid fight. You once told me “forever we’ll love you.” I never got to tell you, but mom and dad, I love you too. You told me not to drink, as I ran out the door, but you must’ve forgotten... I don’t do that anymore. Charley
Reason for writing:
I know that this is long, but I was asked by my principal in my senior
year if I would write a poem that would get the point across to everyone
at prom time. this is what I came up with.
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