One Fateful Night

You handle your life
with a childish aire.
A carefree life, I only
wish mine could’ve been fair!

You smile and laugh
as I watch from afar.
I watch and wonder
why you got in the car.

I knew he was drunk
and so did you,
I still don’t know why
you got in with her too.

They were both drunk
and she was distracting him.
I wish I wasn’t so shy so I
could have kept you from them.

In you went and
away you flew.
I started home
from the party alone.

He started the car
to take you home.
I stood alone in the
headlights frozen.

I never felt the pain.
You were the last thing I saw.
I made that moment last
your life long.

Before I let death overtake
my life, I told you how I felt.

“I have loved you from afar
for many a year. Cry for me not.
Don’t shed a tear. But grant me
two wishes before I die, tell my
parents I love them, and kiss me
now, kiss me goodbye.”


Before you could kiss me
I took my last breath.
But you promised to fulfill
half my last wish.

You told my parents
of my dieing words,
and how you could
grant only half of my wish.

My mother wept,
my father teared.
You told them a secret
you had always feared.


“I loved your daughter as she did me.
Afar and away, never did I see.
Your daughter needed me that night,
and I failed to save her from the tunnel’s
powerful light. I was to stunned and filled
with dread, to fulfill the rest of what she had said.”

My father smiled through his tears,
“My son you just did.”

You looked astonished
as you realized that the
gift of love was greater
than that of one missed kiss.

~Jennifer

• On Saturday, September 6, 2008, Lethie (29) wrote:
  
  I love it keep it up
  
  
• On Monday, March 24, 2003, Daughter_Of_The_Moon (161) wrote:
  
  the only thing i can think of that is appropriate for this work would be that it is breathtaking
  
  
• On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, liquid_emotion (407) wrote:
  
  Again, an interesting ending