What where you thinking?

Sorry guys this is more a rant than everything else. One of my friends was hit by a drunk driver while crossing the street this week and died. So I�m a bit cut up about it, specially after visiting with his family.

 

It only takes one second
To change the lives of so many
One selfish irresponsible act
To make a mother cry
And leave friends wondering why

 

Today I sit here
And I have no words for the anger
That brews inside of me
No tears to express the sadness,
That awaits his family till eternity

 

Dear Sir, what where you thinking?
Where you thinking at all?
Did you think that today
You where going to change someone’s life?
Did you even see that far ahead?

 

Did you ever think

By drinking that one last glass

You would forever take away

Someone’s loving soul?

Did you?

 

Tonight his baby will be sleeping in his little bed

Never realizing that his father

Won’t be coming home again

He would grow up

Not remembering what a great father he had

 

How do you sleep at night

Knowing that a baby is never going to know his dad?

Can you even look in the mirror

Without seeing a murderer

Now forever condemned by a careless act?

 

Thanks to you, his wife will be forever scared

You have robbed them of a lifetime together

Robbed them from their vows

And in the end all that she has left

Is a picture of a husband, once so great

 

At his funeral, we sit

Wishing you could be here

To experience first hand

The sorrow you have caused 

Words cannot even begin to express

The anguish you have created

 

So I am left with one question only

‘cause my minds a blank a right now

But I have to one last time

Hoping that you can answer it…

 

“What where you thinking?”

Author's Note

Sorry guys this is more a rant than everything else. One of my friends was hit by a drunk driver while crossing the street this week and died. So I�m a bit cut up about it, specially after visiting with his family.

Reviews

[Deborah Leah Krempa]

I am so sorry for your loss. As you probably know I recently lost my son due to a drunk driver. It tears you apart. I wrote so much about it in my poetry, losing my poems, is like losing another part of him. Please be strong. If you ever need to talk, I'm here. And thank you so much for sharing your pain, writing about it will help you get through, it did for me anyway. Lots of love, hugs and prayers. You should send this to MADD mothers against drunk drivers. Debileah

[Laughing Lunatic]

I'm sorry for your lose =( Its so tramatizing when someone is lost so sudden. Your anger comes through in this writting. This sends a very powerful message!

[Dawn]

I am so sorry to hear about your loss and writing is always a good way of expressing feelings so go ahead and rant away. It was very well written.

[Candle in the wind]

Your misery and anguish comes through very strongly.I can feel the same anger brew within.

[Gary H]

I really took this to my heart when I read through. You have created an excellent poem showing the forceful impact on the lives of so many because of a reckless and thoughtless driver. To just say how sorry I feel after reading does not even begin to convey my anoyannce that people behave in this way with no regard for others.
Your title and question is spot on - I hope this person feels some kind of remorse for the killing - effectively killing a young childs upbringing and the love between a young couple.
I think you have shown your anger in an eloquent and restrained way here - that removes this from what I would call a 'rant' although I can see your reasoning for identifying the writing in this way. The poem has power and certainly I felt every word you said here.