Crash and Burn

I'm driving your Ferrari
speeding fast, happy, carefree
up a lonely mountain
with you smiling by me.

You're talking about tomorrow
but I dread there is no dawn,
although it's lovely weather
dark clouds loom and mourn.

We're leaving the safe lands
the cliffs are sharp and steep
my chest tightens,
panic.
the clouds begin to weep.

my hands are shaking
I try to stay in control
but I know it is coming
soon, at the top,
we'll both fall.

Faster and faster
heart roaring like a plane
always ends in disaster
I try to brake in vain.

With me, there's no forever
it's always crash and burn.
Let me drive for a minute,
and I'll take the wrong turn.

The end comes out of nowhere
smash, crash
big fireball,
pain sharper than scissors
slowly through space, we fall.

Glass shards rain like diamonds
the ground steals my breath
I lie stunned, breathing ashes
again, another death.

Rolling away from rubble
burnt, bruised
am I still alive?
I told you I was trouble.
No lovers can survive.

(c) Copyright 2019 Malu Laila

Reviews

[John the Baptist]

A very well paced and rhymed piece here, part ballad and part psychological profile. The speaker seems to possess considerable self knowledge, but is at the same time unable to quash self destructive tendencies. The result is frustration and fatalism. The story is related as though it is a dream. Dreams are sometimes known to be warnings from the deeper mind. Let's hope in this case the warning is heeded.

PS: Do a spell check on verse 5, line 4, word 4.

[Malu Laila]

Thanks so much for the lovely comment, John! :)

Oops, yes, you're right.