A Life Cut Short
by Quinn C. Dodge
(USA)
A sunny day
with August green
a mechanical mishap
a tragic scene
A father's scream
to a gawking sky
A mother's pleas
Save my child
Cars passing by
the world doesn't stop
Yet all the while,
a frozen clock.
Bodies in shock
voices weakened by fear
waterproof napkins
to ebb endless tears.
Eleven years,
intangible pain, invisible wounds
scar what remains,
when one leaves too soon.