Death On The Highway

• Tom Greer, Grade 4
• Poetry
• 2015

Sirens shouting as the ambulance races through
Cars pulling over worried expressions
Family worried sick
Glass shattered everywhere
Car broken by pole
Pinned to the seat by the air bag
Kids in the back seat dying for no reason
Blood rushing to the massive wound in stomach
Ambulance arriving
But it was too late
The beer bottle falling from your grasp
Everybody felt sorry
You are soaked in alcohol
It didn't have to be that way
But you chose to
It was all your fault -yours alone.