Burned Rubber Streets – Two Images
I let the pictures speak.
I.
Big City Night Life – Sweden 2019
Night time
And new expensive looking cars;
The sound of music in Arabic
Pounding through the car windows;
Lamp lights stare in vain …
A car stops!
A girl is taken in by the music!!
She enters!!!
The car heads of towards a crossing formed as a Y.
Instead of turning right
The car continues its ride to the left,
Which is straight ahead
Towards a suburb.
A girl screams
The same girl who entered earlier
Taken in by the music
Played loud!!!!
The music is still loud
But she screams louder
Realising that the car didn’t turn
And she is filled with terror
Anticipating what will happen
In suburbia …
My fault entirely!!!
I saw her enter!!!
I didn’t act!!!
I could have been her shield!!!
R.I.P. Unknown
Nice, France – 2019
Walking by the pavement
Heading to a modest hotel
I encountered
A young French girl
Lying on the ground
With her purse beside her;
Shirt torn,
Trousers too.
I stop;
She raises her head,
Looks at me,
I only look at her
Not saying a word;
My face expresses nothing
I’m aware of …
The girls quickly grabs her purse
And rises from the cold March pavement.
Sobbing
She walks away
Real quick …
I turn around
Looking the other way,
Not wanting to display
My tears …
At times silence speak more than words.
Shaken,
I resume
My way to the hotel.
I need to correct the first image. The final line is, of course, judging from the way it seemed to developand nothing else. I should have omitted it perhaps. Thank you for reading.
strong images, thriller almost. so sad such things happen every single hour on this planet, everywhere.
Thank you for the comment. Yeah! A raw write I suppose for raw events I suppose. A quick write too. Since then I’ve equipped myself with better communication means just in case of …
Hopefully the do’s and don’ts are there for the reader to think about.
Thank you!!!!
They would probably delete this over on KGB Tales…
I think it the FSB nowadays.
Powerful stark social commentary. Impressive stuff and so sad.
Thank you very much for your comments. Most kind.