December 17, 2012

2 STEPS BEHIND


Two steps behind


Kevin skipped excitedly to school that morning
He was getting an award that day
His mother and two younger siblings
Were walking two steps behind him

Kevin came to the intersection kerb
One they had crossed over 300 times before
The lady in the Audi 4wd wasn’t looking his way
When she pushed her accelerator to the floor

A blood curdling scream from his mother
Was all that neighbours and passers-by heard
The lady got out of her car and frantically screamed
“But he came from no-where!”

Kevin never made it to school that day
His award still sits on his teachers table
Christmas cards in his backpack not to be delivered
Two families shattered…Never to be the same again






14th December 2012

All the students from K - 6 coloured in a paper person, and
they were strung up around the perimeter of the school gates. 

Kevins favorite colour was blue. 

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