"Three Red Lights and a Left Turn."

Connect-Who I wish I knew your first name,and Joe. Thank you for reading and commenting on this piece. Good suggestions from both of you. It was not originally formated in a paragraph form...So much for cutting and pasting eh? It's not often you will see me post an overly personal piece. My first wife died in a car accident three and half years into our marriage. This piece literally happened like I wrote it. For all the attendant nightmares of emotions that came with that event, this was and is a cathartic little poem for me. It is only the second poem I have written about her. I just don't have the heart to change it or edit it. Melancholy, is a very good way of describing it. My challenge was not to write a poem that was just raw dripping emotions. In the grand scheme of things will this ever be considered a great poem or even a good one, probably not. I think the motivation behind posting this was to show you can express grief or very deep emotions without making your audience have their skin crawl. Thank you for your time and your comments. -David Work, stretch, take risks, visualize your future. Become the poet you have always longed to be. All that is needed is honest effort.-DSB