* Corner Collision Looms Dead Ahead Poem by Terence George Craddock

telephone pole planted roadside
blocked lost control pathway
concrete beam bordering roadside
blocked reckless runaway roadway

around tight murderous corner cannot stray
around overshot sped corner couldn't swerve

telephone pole planted roadside
blocked pathway
concrete beam bordering runaway
blocked roadway

while the pole moved
into line of sight
while the pole moved
into dead reckoning

then slid directly dead
into dead line of sight

blocked safer exit pathway
blocked safer exit roadway

the arrow of time has bullseye struck
termination barrier concrete telephone pole
fate reckless speed dead reckoning

while the pole instantly moved
half an out of line bloody inch....

impact instant fatal instantaneous death....


Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Split image from the poem 'Lost Head Going Home', by the poet Terence George Craddock.
Written in May 1996 on the 15.5.1996.