Crash

[Jerrybaldy]

I was driving when I died
I heard the fireman say
I hadn’t survived
I can see the fir tree
Air freshener
And the blood on the screen
And the bad moon
But I hear the fireman say
I hadn’t survived
A snickers wrapper in the footwell
And you havent survived
Beside me
Solitary magpie
In the cherry tree
Crumpled Lager can
Broken glass
Dj on the radio
Giving a shout out to
Disco Dan
I need some sunshine or a cup of tea
I’m bleeding
From my ears
Nobody here is older than me
I have years
Under my seat belt
And black suede shoes
I think a long time ago
I cried
Like a little boy scared of thunder
I cried
In fleshy mess
And bloody glass
I held your hand
When the fireman said
We hadn’t survived.

[M Kirkpatrick]

I was driving when I died
I heard the fireman say
I hadn’t survived
I can see the fir tree
Air freshener
And the blood on the screen
And the bad moon
But I hear the fireman say
I hadn’t survived
A snickers wrapper in the footwell
And you havent survived
Beside me
Solitary magpie
In the cherry tree
Crumpled Lager can
Broken glass
Dj on the radio
Giving a shout out to
Disco Dan
I need some sunshine or a cup of tea
I’m bleeding
From my ears
Nobody here is older than me
I have years
Under my seat belt
And black suede shoes
I think a long time ago
I cried
Like a little boy scared of thunder
I cried
In fleshy mess
And bloody glass
I held your hand
When the fireman said
We hadn’t survived.

Thanks for the poem jerrybaldy, we can be both dead and alive at the same time?
warmestregards michael.

[M Kirkpatrick]

I was driving when I died
I heard the fireman say
I hadn’t survived
I can see the fir tree
Air freshener
And the blood on the screen
And the bad moon
But I hear the fireman say
I hadn’t survived
A snickers wrapper in the footwell
And you havent survived
Beside me
Solitary magpie
In the cherry tree
Crumpled Lager can
Broken glass
Dj on the radio
Giving a shout out to
Disco Dan
I need some sunshine or a cup of tea
I’m bleeding
From my ears
Nobody here is older than me
I have years
Under my seat belt
And black suede shoes
I think a long time ago
I cried
Like a little boy scared of thunder
I cried
In fleshy mess
And bloody glass
I held your hand
When the fireman said
We hadn’t survived.

Thanks for the poem jerrybaldy, we can be both dead and alive at the same time?
warmestregards michael.

[Dreamwoven]

This is an interesting point. We can perhaps be in the transition from life to death, which this poem expresses admirably.

[desiresjab]

An exceptionally good piece.

[Shadowlight]

I love the emotions your poems evoke through pictures of points in time.

[Jerrybaldy]

Thanks all I don’t suppose we will know until it’s too late to find out :)

[Jerrybaldy]

Thanks all I don’t suppose we will know until it’s too late to find out :)

[tonywalt]

It a cool deep poem Jerry. love it

[fudgetusk]

Interesting theme and style.