Rain-slicked Asphalt repulses Black tread rubber Pushing me off-course No longer heading home Instead bearing to confront Mother Nature’s fenced border Chain-linked crooked limbs weaving Disaster and death into my tapestried Life and her children taunting chanting Red Rover Red Rover let the human come Over yet I fail to break their linked arms Instead my glass shield is sharply pierced One arm through reaching for my throat Grasping Suffocating Closing Ending Before fright wide eyes Witnessing Crash