Fragile: Handle With Care

(Based on a true story….)

Was it worth it,

To go to the bar that night?

A twenty-one-year-old male leaves the saloon around 2 A.M.

Drives his pickup the back way home

Hoping to be on the road alone,

As to avoid meeting anybody on the road

Trying to stay between the winding lines,

Not wanting to receive any fines.

She is in her early forties

Heading home from work

Has three kids of her own,

All safe and sound at home,

Around the same age as him.

Two beautiful grandbabies,

Two years and the other a couple months.

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At approximately 2:30 A.M. the two met

They didn’t meet like anyone would have thought that they’d have met.

Head-on collision within half a second.

Car totaled,

Seeing red,

Almost on her deathbed.

Drenched in blood

Knocked out cold;

These accidents are getting old.

Something so easily preventable,

Turns into something so very lamentable.

Life is something precious,

It should have a label reading “FRAGILE: HANDLE WITH CARE”

Not everyone’s life is treated fair.

He was being reckless;

He took life for granted.

Lessons that should have already been implanted,

He should have known that he wasn’t right to drive,

Now her family is deprived.

Was it worth it,

To not call a sober friend?

We know this was not what you would intend.

There’s always another option to making it home,

Rather than driving drunk and alone.

When walking the line of his field sobriety test,

Face meeting the pavement, he confessed,

“I f*cked up! I f*cked up!”

Now he’s headed for lockup.

Was it worth it,

To have that last shot of vodka;

Just to create all of this trauma?

To be frowned upon for the rest of your life;

She is a sister, a mother, and a wife.

Blew a BAC of 0.19

Don’t even worry about the fine,

Because you have someone’s life on the line.

He’s no longer floating on cloud nine.

Fortunately she is doing well.

A couple weeks have passed,

She’s still lying in a hospital bed,

Feeding tubes wrapped around her head.

She will not be recovering fast.

Surgeries upon surgeries,

Thousands of prayers,

Her bulging arteries,

Millions of severe repairs.

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When will we come to the realization

That being under the influence while driving a vehicle

Fills everyone with an appalling frustration

The damage that can be done is unbelievable.

People’s lives can and will be destroyed.

It’s not worth it to drive while intoxicated

To have someone else’s life dictated

Due to your lack of good choices

And ignoring other’s voices.

In the blink of an eye,

Two people’s lives have changed forever;

Especially hers,

Pray for her.

Think,

Is it really worth it?