Every 15 Minutes

I wrote this when I was a senior in High School back in 2007.. It hit me pretty hard and this is why I dont drink much and I will never drive drunk..

Every 15 Minutes

On a windy, cold, rainy day

Every 15 minutes during the school day police officers took out fellow students

Juniors and Seniors gathered on 4/12/07

To watch a pretend drunk driving accident

We sat watching our friends all bloody

We watched one fly away in a helicopter

We sat there watching, tears in eyes, cold wind blowing

The next day we gathered again for an explanation

They told our fellow students to come out

They put roses in a coffin

The officer gave his speech

A lady came up next to give her sad story about her son’s

One died the other is mentally ill because of an accident

The mother was in deep tears, my heart sank..

Next they called the guy that was pretending to be the drunk driver

They chose him to read his goodbye letter out loud to his parents and to all of us

The first thing he said was “this is going to be hard”, he started crying

My heart fell for him, tears formed

While he was reading, all I thought about were my parents

How I didn’t say “I love you” or hugged them before I left

We all come and go, never hug and say

The ceremony effected a lot of students that day

Maybe even changed some into better people

One day we will look back on this and thank our school for this

Every 15 minutes someone dies or is serious injured from a drunk driving accident in the US

IT could be anyone, Don’t let it be you…

Reviews

[Deborah Leah Krempa]

Exellent poem and the message is powerful. Thank you for sharing. Debileah