Well my cousin was killed by drunk driving kids last year when she was 19. After her funeral I came home and sat down and began to write this poem called "Who Would Know"
Who would know these kids were drunk
driving in our town?
I was coming out of the parking lot,
they hit me, I spun around.
All of a sudden my short life flashed
before my hurting eyes.
I started thinking about all the fun
I had with mom, dad, and the guys.
Then I hear the siren guy say there is no chance -
She will die, I also felt my spirit go up into the sky.
Why does my family have to suffer,
for something they didn't do?
I just pulled out of a parking lot and now my life is through.
I am only 19 years old now,
my family's life is going to shatter,
and the civil case will not matter.
The expense of my funeral will bring them down,
me lying in a casket,
my family and friends all on the ground.
Just because those kids thought they were cool,
drinking and driving in my town.
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Hey this is a pretty intense poem i like your style of writing it really made my emotions jump and that is what writing is all about. Keep up the great work
rosa
I really loved ur poem!
Diana
This is a very heart felt poem and I almost cried when I read it. Having the experence to write this peom has made really good.
brandi
i realy liked this story
Kat
Wow! I thought that this poem was great It was so sad it even brought tears to my eyes !
hali
omg this poem is soo beautiul i started to bawl!
Tina
This poem really touches out on the problem of drink drivers. I feel sympathy to the auther.
inez
I like it cause this is so ture about drinking you never know what is going to happen in real life and there are a lot or people out there that just don't care at all and i think that they should.
Brianna
BEAUTIFUL but SAD!
Makayla
this is a great poem it is very touching and it reminds me of my best friend that was killed by a drunk driver. im sorry this happened to you too. makayla
Jennifer
This poem really touched me. I am 20 now, and 2 weeks before my birthday my parents, sister, and brothers were hit in a head on collision by a drunk driver. I never really understood why this happened. I mean I thought that the people that got killed in the drunk driving accidents were the drunk drivers, not the innocent people. I felt that it was all my fault, because if it hadn't been close to my birthday, then they wouldn't have gone out. (they were on there way back from going shopping for me) Your poem has brought me back to the night that the police came to my house, and helped me realise that this would have happened to someone else if not my family. And I would rather be the one to deal with this than have someone else go through this.
Shelby
This poem tells you why you shouldn't drink an drive. You can seriously injur or kill somebody. I think kids need to read this poem, and then they will decide if they want to drink and drive.
kellie
*sorry to hear about your friend* the poem was great realy good well done good on you
kathy
That peom was excellent, it made me really sad, and i'm doing a book report on it at school.
Jessica
This poem touched me deep dowwn. It almost made me cry. It brought back deep memories of my loving sister Hannah. She also died of some careless drunk driver. I hope your poem will help people relize that drinking and driving is a painful crime, which they shouldn't do.
kourtney
Hey thats a really great poem and if its true im very terribley sorry.
patti
what an amazing writter you are!This poem reflects the true image of a life lost to impaired driving. Too many innocent people are killed to this crime.
amanda
that poem is so true. so many people have that happen to them. that really touched me deeply and truly, i just had 3 people die in my school becuase of a drunk driverso i can relate to the poem really well
breanne
i thought that this poem was very toutching cause me and my family were in a drunk driveing accident and my mom and my sister almost died and i lost mt best friend to a drunk driveng accident and so i am gald to know that i am not the only one going threw this pain and i am sry about ur aunt by breanne
Anequay
This poem was very touching. I also recently lost a young family member which involved alcohol. I hope and pray that others will make smarter choices about drinking and driving.
amanda
this ppoem hit me in the right spot i really liked this one. i justed wanted to say how good this poem was
Jackie
i thought your poem was really good and people should think before they drink and drive.
darla
i really liked this poem because when my auntie bonnie was 16 she was killed by a drunk driver. so ya poems about drinking just kinda have a special meaning to me
Debra
My dad and my step mom was in town one day and all of a sudden they was hit by a drunk driver. He was 19 years old. My dad has really bad seaziers and my step mom has back problem all because of a drunk driver
Desiree
this is a sad poem. but it has a strong point and it is a great way to get the point acrossed to kids and adults alike. it has a strong unhesitent point wich makes this poem one of the best poems on drunk driving i have ever read. thank you auther for this great poem signed, Desiree
katherine
i thought that this poem is very toching and reality about the facts of life and all of the hurtfull things
Casey
I thought this poem was really good. You had a very good mind to make this.
Gina
this poem made me cry. my friend when i was litle got hit by a car and died a few weeks ago. im guna cry if i keep typing this
Sarah
I loved this poem. It really got to me. It showed me what could happen. I feel really bad for you family and also yourself. I hope that i am never put in that situatuion and i hope that my friends and family arent in that situatuion either. It could really affect somebody's life.
Sarah
I started to tear when I read your poem. Put in the simplest of words, you touched my heart in a deep way. Nearly three years ago now, I too was hit by a drunk driver, but thanks to God I survived. Everytime I read the statistics about drunk driving and the massacres that follow an accident, I keep thinking, that could have been me.
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