It comes early on a Saturday, out of school and without a
care
Leaving only
thousands of glass shards that sparkle in the air
In a darkened room mercifully at last the long struggle
finally ceases
Leaving
behind nothing but the small comfort of the ritual cleaning
After a brief and overwhelming chest pain he codes within an
hour
never had the
first sign or symptom to even slow him down
Reaching for her coffee while talking on the phone she
drifts to the right
Taking out a
rider who is smeared to the pavement underneath his bike
Slowly the minister backs from his driveway rehearsing his
Sunday sermon
A terrible
bump and his trusting little girl is pinned beneath the wheel
A friend slides off a rainy mountain road, rolling again and
again
Those left
behind are forced to ponder who stays and who must leave
A small tree planted and cared for does not awaken in the
spring
A small part of the caretaker is consumed by
his own futility
A simple misstep results in a long period lying alone and
helpless
Just as the
life force slowly leaves an insect kicking on its back
Working to restore power for thousands of impatient
customers
A sudden
massive jolt scrambles his life processes, all at once
Unable to sit and too weak to cough, barely able to whisper
Fluid fills
her lungs and she drowns in a bed up there on the 25th floor
Unwilling to continue coping after long & drawn out
years of depression
Sudden
inspiration is followed with a quick shot to the temple
Sparking the grill loaded with unburned natural gas
Intense
explosion scatters consciousness in a fine aerosol mist
Finding a loaded weapon in the drawer next to daddy’s bed
A smiling
brother’s head is blown open, smothering the echo of his laugh
Taking a relaxing swim at a beautiful beach on a dream
vacation
The undertow
silently claims another panicked victim
Working hard to save money and make a better home for his
family
The ladder
slips and father falls leaving them all on their own
An improvised explosive rigged as a roadside truck bomb
Sends bagged
parts of a son home with honor in a neatly-draped coffin
Another overcrowded ferry capsizes miles out in that dark
and stormy channel
Hundreds
quickly drown but others manage to struggle on for hours
Twister rakes a mobile home in which poverty’s occupants
desperately hide
Opened like a
can of sardines it paws away at those inside
Oversized but lacking conscience and ignorant of moral
authority
One home boy
shoots another and earns a better education in a prison
Five young graduates ride fast on country roads well after
0’DarkThirty
And with
great laughter they leave the road and suddenly end their lives together
Tiny apartment dweller is fascinated by mommy’s smoking
paraphernalia
The shiny
lighter brings bright flames, smoke and fumes to where he hides
Massive sixteen wheeler crosses into the other lane as the
driver falls asleep
A
coincidental family trip is ended at a randomly solid bridge abutment
Somewhere in the Andes creeping up a narrow road, an old bus
blows a tire
Forty people
roll and roll into a colorfully indistinguishable blend
In the hectic traffic of a crowded southeast asian city,
someone takes a chance
And yet
another cyclist spills out his brains upon that wet, warm pavement
Mother deer leads her fawn across the road for the very
first time
Speeding
armored family SUV takes her out and drives on, just a bit shaken up
High on drugs and life, young men take to playfully climbing
on the rocks
Just a slight
slip and that quick fall ends one life, a quick hundred feet after
One more uncontrollable burst of red-faced anger starts
another day
A sudden
brain blood clot leaves behind nothing but a mute and crooked face
Loyal retriever grown too old, stands next to master’s
hunting rifle once again
Knowledge of
the discharge ends when that bullet exits from his head
The miracle of a butterfly flutters through the sunlight on
its appointed trajectory
In a fraction of a second mounted
inside out on the grille of my speeding vehicle
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