Starting from today,
unusual things have started to happen.
Finally life has decided to
mix things up a bit.
I was always hopeful but
never quite believing that
different things would happen to me
or whether I was supposed to enforce
them myself.
Today,
someone drove their red car onto my drive and
destroyed half a rose bush.
It was an accident.
The driver wasn’t much older than me
There was a little girl
with plaits in her hair
and pink boots on her feet who had been
sitting in the back.
And she looked too crumpled
to live again.
I didn’t see the other car,
the one the red car had
tried so desperately to avoid
just drove away.
Bastard.
And it made me realise,
at any moment, you
can fall over,
or your body can malfunction
or you're in an accident
and you might not get up again.
Like the flame of a candle,
the light is snuffled out and
you’re just gone.
