YOU WATCH A LIFE, FULL OF JOY,
GROWING IN EVERY WAY
LEARNING, LOVING, UNDERSTANDING
EACH AND EVERY DAY.

YOU TRY TO PROTECT THEM, THE BEST YOU CAN,
FROM ALL LIFE’S WOES AND DANGERS,
TEACH THEM TO KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG,
BE WARY OF ALL STRANGERS.

THEN SOMEONE TAKES IT ALL AWAY
THEIR CHANCES, HOPES AND DREAMS,
YOUR CHILD GETS IN THE WAY OF A CAR
THEY DON’T GET A CHANCE TO SCREAM.

SUDDENLY YOUR WORLD IS CRUMBLING,
WORST NIGHTMARES COME TO VISIT,
YOU WONDER HOW SOMEONE COULD BE SO CRUEL,
THIS ISN’T HAPPENING, IS IT?

YOUR PLANNING FUNERALS, SORTING OUT,
A LIFE TAKEN MUCH TOO SOON
AND ALL YOU WANT TO DO IS CRY,
JUST SIT THERE IN THEIR ROOM.

HOPING THAT THIS NIGHTMARE,
WILL END AND YOU CAN GO,
AND KISS GOODNIGHT THE CHILD
LOST NOW,NEVER EVER TO KNOW.

THAT YOU LOVED HIM SO DESPERATELY
THAT YOU DONT WANT TO STAY
HERE, IN THIS HARD UNCARING WORLD,
THAT STOLE MY CHILD AWAY.

AND STILL THEY RACE ALONG THE ROADS
THAT YOU WERE KILLED ON SUDDENLY,
WHY CAN’T THEY SEE, UNDERSTAND
THAT THEY ARE RISKING THEIR FAMILIES.

BECAUSE THEY, AND PEOPLE LIKE THEM
DON’T LISTEN TO THE SCREAMS,
OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST SOMEONE
THEIR LIVES, THEIR HOPES AND DREAMS.

ONE DAY THEY MAY BE LEFT WONDERING
DID HE REALLY KNOW WE CARED?
THEIR WAS NO CHANCE TO SAY GOODBYE
TO STOP HIM FEELING SCARED.

I HOPE THIS POEM TOUCHES YOU,
AND MAKES YOU ALL THINK TWICE,
ABOUT SPEEDING, EVEN JUST A LITTLE-
NO MORE WASTING LIVES….

By Wendy Logan
In memory of my son Gordon killed aged 10 by a speeding driver.