One mile to the rest stop

Read

Exit signs on the highway

Merge right at the next lane

Blind spots at a bad place

Even used his blinker

And you’d barely see that from mass plates

85 to the back plate

One turn and a bad day

New job, ain’t the last one

First day as an EMT

New call, it’s a bad one

Lights on at the gas speed

ECG in the back beeps

And the sound isn’t helping his heartbeat

Almost at the scene

Tire marks on the concrete

Words don’t fit for the sight seen

Words can’t say what the mess is

But one look showеd it unlikely

Of any life left in thе wreckage

Partner did the recheck

He just stood there speechless

Long drive on the way back

No talk, trying to think past

And he didn’t show the next day

And he didn’t show up the next day

And he didn’t show up the next day

New job, 25 and nothing the same