Headlights

Headlights on the highway
Like a thousand pairs of eyes
Watching as I step
Into certain demise

Bare feet on the blacktop
Burned by the sun
Scars on the soles
You are not the one

I drop your picture to the ground
And find the stars in the sky
And make a silent wish
That you wonder why

But the cars only swerve around me
Frantic headlights turn away
And I drop to my knees
Can there be another way?

The collision rears its head
But when I open my eyes I’m in my bed
Sweat dripping down my cheeks
But when I look around at the white walls
I realize I haven’t slept in weeks.

Author's Note

I've had the first stanza swimming around in my head for days now and the rest of the poem basically wrote itself. Comments and crit appreciated :3

Reviews

[Nancy Lee Shrader]

Congrats on your great winning poem!

[Marlena]

The last stanza is my fave and the coolest, I think. I love it when poetry writes itself, makes it so much easier to get it down XD Amazing work!