A Lesson Never Learned (A Dorsimbra)
by
David Pekrul
copyright 09-04-2006
Age Rating: 10 to 127
The dots along the road became a line,
The poles along the side became a fence,
By driving fast I didn’t see the sign,
The cliffs that lie ahead were quite immense.
Panic – screams – bush and trees,
Bounced and tossed, and
Thrown about,
Please make this whole thing stop.
I tried to make it back up to the road,
And when I did, I knew I’d be all right,
I hit the gas and headed on my way,
The dots along the road became a line.
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What can I say, Lord David...perfectly structured and limned. I am compelled to ask what inspired the topic, but at the same time a bit afraid to know for fear that there may be some element of non-fiction involved. Although, you claim there were "screams". Were you not alone in the car?
You could look at this a different way, too. Live life too fast, and you miss things that are important. Then life comes crashing down on you, and if you don't learn from your mistakes and slow down, live life too fast, then you start missing things again!
Sometimes it takes a mistake to learn a lesson... and in this poem, it seems like the person had an accident, survived and didn't learn a thing because as it reads the "dots became lines again."
I loved this poem David. Short and to the point I think too.
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