Salvage

Run a  red light 

Cuse you are in a rush

Panting and shaking 

Fingers intertwined on the wheel 

Foot to the ground

Never mind the yellow 

Drumming in your ears as 

You race to make the light 

You may think you succeed 

But you didnt 

You did not succeed 

Cracking pavement beneath the tires 

Grinding gears as another swerves 

In an attempt to save distance 

To salvage lives

You so carelessly risk 

Many more than you 

Lives in the balance 

In your hands 

Please she whispers 

Save the children first 

Now a place of scrap metal 

And body parts 

Flashlights as the sirens arrive

First responders 

To your plight  

Once more you did this 

In a rush for what 

Was it worth it 

To be frozen in time 

Unable to break the compound 

Scared for those involved 

A blur of red no blue 

Swirls before you

Please remember this  moment 

This feeling 

hopelessness 

Panic 

Never again 

Run the clear luminescent 

Red