And now I am confronted by

That very raw feeling of helplessness,

It woke me to the brutal reality

I was always afraid of

 

Suddenly I was dragged into it

A moment’s lapse until all hell breaks loose

And you’re screaming for the vehicle

To stop propelling itself forward,

Whilst your father sits in the driver’s seat

Unconscious and stealthily moving into

An uncertain end

 

Black smoke comes pouring out of the rear,

Sinister and choking me

In the clouds that come unfurling

 

Something is very unnerving

When you are told that

The keys are no longer in the ignition…

 

Perhaps it was not my father driving,

 

But then who was it and what was their mission?