Causal Chains Victims Poem by Jonathan ROBIN

Crash victims are constrained to change of plan,
their karmic threads led to one time, one place,
who won nor great renown, nor state of grace,
no statement made, no grade, trapped also-ran.

Smash victims: ordinary girl or man
whose function filled a causal void to trace
world's tipping point as joint between Earth, space,
catalyzing universal plan.

Dash victims subject to a searching scan,
still fill a fulcrum role on which to base
a change of pace for all the human race
tripping switch to hitch 'we wish' 'we can! '

Though victims' stars from headlines disappeared
flash accident safe guidelines pionneered.

Crash victim once was mother of fair five
who now mourn visage torn before its time
from hearth and home to starry dome, alive
remaining in hearts aching at that crime.

Smash victim, mother to statistic turned
by accident as luck and life ebbed out,
dust dust returned ignores love's merits earned
ensuring offspring should not do without.

Dash victim seem both she who saw hopes crushed
and he who rushed towards unwanted fate,
mirth into earth conveyed light laughter hushed:
two families impacted on that date.

Both mourning irresponsibility
can't put clocks back, derail eternity.

Crushed victim seemed an ordinary man
whose sojourn saw so few fond hopes come true,
who met forgetfulness out of the blue:
banns cancelled out by error all should ban.

Smash victim seemed an ordinary man
swift 'hither hurried whence? ' drew scarlet spew,
no damsel, book of verse, oasis dew,
but flask unasked tipped fate, unzipped life's fan.

Rush victim seemed an ordinary man,
yet all horizons filled for favoured few
who now must fend as best they can, eschew
bitter revenge 'spite wits at end, crushed span.

When victim's star imploded in black hole
could light carve curved nerve path preserving soul?

Hushed victim driven home from circus fair
farewell to well of loneliness, joy's spring,
leak sprung, rung snapped, life's ladder lost, no spare
cat's life to compensate sad tocsin ring.

Pawn sacrificed as fatal do or dare
played out, crash caught on CCTV ping,
wake unrehearsed, hearse bearing bodkin bare,
bod for damp sods, kin mourning fatal sting..

Mourned victim, sectionned trunk, drunk barred
for years, won't heal hurt, ease, pain, tears, must bring
to justice thoughtless action that, ill-starred,
curtailed hope's tale, heart failing final fling.

Screenplay axed, final episode concluded,
drunk driving's purge dirge logic, love, eluded.