Blackness

Inspired by the events of a bus crash involving the band Baroness and frontman John Dyer Baizley's statement of events.

a single instant
when all turns black
one heartbeat
my nose against the glass
i felt this coming
like i knew some time before
was it premonition
trauma before its born

 

our eyes met
one moment i realized
your face mimicked mine
amongst the chaos
the confusion, the awakened
panic settled in
we accepted our decline
off the mountain

 

the trees were bent like matchsticks
the flames they flickered
evergreen across our faces
shadows of fuel spraying
uncontrolled on our descent
the bodies heaving
throwing through glass
we tear the guardrail

 

silence would become black
a drawn out instant
the screams in terror
replaced by acceptance
that this was indeed the last
and so becoming airbourne
as we rode beyond
plummeting to our dawn

 

spiralling to our now
it's our moment
and bodies lain broken
i break arms behind my back
my leg is badly broken
overwhelming sense of joy
this wasn't over,dealing with the present
had meant that we had survived

 

we are alive and changed for the ever
we survived and the scars they are greeting
what was left behind,in the flames and the carnage
a single heartbeat,a solitary moment of black
the sun never rose from that night
the chill we now have in our hearts
the hairs now all stand on end
the grating noise we hear in our heads

 

when the breaks are failing
when you can't control your end

Author's Note

i am bleak much?