Cover Your Eyes

I just passed where the accident was when I was little whenever we passed something like that my parents would make me cover my eyes But this time I couldn’t cover my eyes I saw it all the mangled car the skid marks which stopped at the edge of the cliff where the car went off the police taking pictures of the wreck their faces emotionless and blank the flaggers slowly letting people through, smoking away the stress of what they saw I feel for the officer who had to tell the family “There’s been a fatal accident” and I feel for the family who had an officer knock on their door and say “There’s been a fatal accident” And I wish That my parents were there to say “close your eyes” so I didn’t have to see the violence and sadness of life and death But this time I had to drive by Eyes wide to the reminder that no one has forever

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