Poetry
You Save Me Every Day
It’s a flash
It’ll pass
It’ll pass
It’ll pass
A noose hanging, neck cricked
The cold pulsing as the blood drips
Water flows over the tub rim
It seeps down the ceiling below
The white plaster turns dark and grim
Drip-drip kids playing in the puddles beneath
The glass cracks as the median hits your face
Unhinging a whole row of your teeth
Airbags deploy but boy
Do they hurt
Crick-Crack kids laying on the asphalt
A dozen cars or more leaping by,
Just the breach of a few inches
A sudden unforgiving shift to the left,
Lunge — dive — you’ll become bereft of it all!
Pit-Pat kids wandering the sidewalk in horror
Look! Gone! They’re absent from this moment!
Abscond! Decamp! Head up the bridge ramp!
Rushing air — leaping cars — the sky drools — sleeping gods!
It’s all here this moment is clear you’ve nothing to fear
JUMP — JUMP — JUMP!
A quick shift, your hand slips, a horn shrieks
It’s a flash
It’s passing
It’s passing
It’s passed
You save me every single day — whoever you are.
