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Night Drive

Driving alone in the moonlight

An hour or two before dawn

Jackson Browne on the radio

Big wheels all humming along

 

Rounding a curve in the highway

I see deer in the road just ahead

The littlest one forgot to run

I hit her and knew she was dead

 

The body lay still and broken

Soft unseeing eyes open wide

Kneeling I took her up in my arms

And I sobbed, and wept, and I cried

 

I cried for her broken body

And I wept for her stolen life

I sobbed for all the loves I've lost

Through all the years of my life

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michael-s-simpson
74 / M / American
Published
Dec 9, 2010
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Copyright 2010 by Michael S. Simpson. All rights reserved.

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