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Drive

Deviation Actions

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"Are we nearly there yet?" Michael asks
His head pounding
His eyes closing
The parents sigh
Their minds on the map,
The road ahead
The pressure to reach home before nightfall.
His eyes rest on the falling droplets on the window where he rests his head.
The cars behind
Blow their horns
Preventing Michael from falling into the
Dreamworld
In which he is so familiar.

The cars beside theirs,
Identically stranded on the motorway
Each provide a different story,
A different life
A different past and future.
Michael's eyes wander into each of the square windows
Drinking in the wonders
Of Human Life.

A young woman,
Suit-wearing
Briefcase bearing
Rests her eyes in the daily jam
On her way home from work.

A teenage girl
Her father at the wheel
Listens to her white Ipod classic
Her arm against the window
Holds
One bracelet
One million
Tiny
White
Scars

A man laughs on his headset

An old woman
Laden down
With the bags under her eyes.

So many lives
So many stories

Poor Michael

He rubs his eyes
And looks at the sea
Of red lights ahead

He blinks.

  "Your life can change in a second.
  The moment you take your eyes off it,
  It falls away…"

He opens his eyes.

He tries moving his head,
But the pain running down his body
Prevents the simple action.

He hears screaming
Sees lights
Blinking on and off

A bloody briefcase
Lies open on the road ahead


An Ipod lies smashed in a pile of glass

And a phone headset
Is just visible
Behind the ear
Of a mangled head

What a waste.
100 Theme Challenge - Drive

I wrote this while watching 'Attack the Block'
So please have low expectations!
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