Accidents

Our laughs merged together, and any other sound faded into a blur.

Everything seemed to move at a pace I couldn’t catch up with.

Suddenly, that flash of red, the screech of tires, the sickening crunch of metal against metal, the shattering glass.

There was a scream—your scream, as the world spiraled around me.

Then, there was silence.

It smelt like gasoline and rubber burning against cement.

I couldn’t hear anything but the animalistic pounding of my own flustered heart.

The sky’s gentle blush was fading into dark, as I felt you slip through my fingers.

Please don’t go…