Point of Impact

Back arched

Arms flung wide

  Jets of life shot into the air

Her expression

Caught somewhere between

Shock

And pain

  Motion momentarily frozen

  In the absence of time

Wrong place

Wrong time

The shutter opens wide

And this ghastly image

Sears itself into my mind

Too close

I see

But can’t yet comprehend

Then blink

A mental exhalation

And life’s course resumes

Hers pulled by force

  Into the cracks along the pavement

#poetry #reallife #amwriting