Just Keep Driving
In the dirt beside the pavement,
I saw the unnatural.
The brilliant beams swept over it.
Time was like ice,
Hovering on the precipice of perdition.
Hair was stiff as straw
and tawny as the mud.
Eyes like mirrors,
shining back at us.
The joints jutted out abnormally.
It was an entanglement
of bent legs and a crooked body.
Our voices screeched to a halt.
Disbelief colored our gazes gray.
As our mind,
Tried to come up to speed with our eyes.
Ruminating thoughts and stuttering breaths.
Excuses for the sight of horrors.
The car skidded past her,
Stopped out of trepidation.
My heart was a battering ram,
a tornado siren.
We had to leave.
One last look,
but the earth was damp and freshly dug up.
It was gone.
