BOOM! POW! CRASH!

My family and I were in a terrible crash and this is my recollection of it. The other car ran a stop sign and flipped our lifted truck and totaled it, I am great-full that no one died.

OUCH! 

What just happened?

Screams fill my ears

Head pounding

Is this how I die?

When it happens before you can even blink 

In slow motion

The pain so deep it...sinks

Snap! My neck and back and bones

Damn... we should have not left home

My son he's screaming as I see him hang

By his neck the tears the ang-uish.

"Mommy! Mommy! Help me please!"

But what could I do?

Rewinding the timing:

Laughter, joy, non-lasting happiness

Son singing songs smiling up at me #Blessed

"Mommy I do like salads...." 

BOOM! POW! CRASH!

Things that were felt moments before... just moments before

Weren't we just supposed to eat?

Pizza, salad, soup and meat?

I don't think we made it...

"Oh s**t!" She yelled bracing for impact 

And yet no one had enough time

Do we ever have enough time?

What happened to us?

- wasn't the control supposed to be mine?

Head through windows 

Pain in legs

I cannot see 

I must be dead

"Is everyone OK?" Someone yells

Who even ask?

"Is this really OK? Whats that smell?

Unbuckling fast him and I

Mom hunched over driver seat pinned 

Body used like an accordion 

Dad pushing doors open that are jammed 

Smoke filling lungs

It's hard to breathe... must break

Finally free, adrenaline pumping 

I'm a super hero lets save .... the dogs?

Wait I don't feel so good

Vision blurring 

Yelling, Cursing

Head is spinning 

 

Knees keep buckling

I just need to rest 

 

I just need to...vomit?

Sirens loudly barreling closer 

Oh pray just pray that this is over.

Or its not real just a bad dream 

This doesn't happen to people like me

Cant move my spine 

Cant move my legs 

Cant see or hear 

Yup guess I'm dead

Laid on a stretcher 

Stiff and tight 

 

Wait guys... is my son alright?

I can't recall all the events 

I am terrified of what comes next?

C-spine collar wrapped around my neck

I cannot breathe my heavy chest...

I'm cold i'm cold 

Wheres my family?

I saw blood so much blood but who was bleeding me?

This isn't real it;s REALLY REAL

This is OUR car crash and how it feels.

Author's Note

I had alot of emotions going on when I wrote this...so forgive my layout I thought to change it but this is raw for me.

Reviews

[Chris]

Apt description... been there myself.

[RacialRainbow]

Thank you for reading, and I'm sorry you had to go through that too.

[Chris]

So was I at the time and a fair bit later - got my Bell rung hard.

[LitStar]

an explosion of memoir so raw and jagged only the experience itself could account for such horror

emotive, dark

well written

[RacialRainbow]

Thank you for your feedback, it is definitely appreciated.