Fred Aiken Writing

i witnessed a car accident today,
it wasn’t a major accident,
no one died or anything,
but it was kinda startling to see
these two metal and plastic death boxes hurtling directly
into one another,
with little carbon flesh mounds jerked back and forth,
wondering, will i live through this,
or will this be the day, the hour, the moment
of my demise,
and then hood of the car crumpled,
the engine roared, the oil curdled, and the screeches
reached through each drivers’ soul,
asking for a prayer to lift them