Death's Disguise

        DEATH'S DISGUISE

Here from my window I sit and stare
For moments ago there were children fair
Full of life at play with a carefree air
Who frolicked and romped and were happy there

But Death has come in an odd disguise
Of a thin young man with tear stained eyes
And a great green car with a stripe of gold
With speed belched forth from it's manifold

And this great green car was a lethal streak
Careless driven to havoc wreak
And the child was struck before she cried
As the tires squealed with the brakes applied

Thus the young man's glory in his steed's great speed
Has been horribly ended with this foul deed
But before the engine could cough and die
He was out and running with tear filled eye

And now in his arms a child there lies
Who's breath grows low and stills and dies
And his heart is filled with the awful shame 
Of a child he’s killed whom he cannot name

And now a man in blue and one in white
Have arrived to view this horrid sight
And from blood and wounds they are made aware
That the still young body is beyond repair

Now the man in blue must place the blame
On the great green car and the youth in shame
And the man in white may only say
A child is dead in the street today!

                                T. Richard Colledge