One For The Road Poem by Bob Gibson

The car it left the coast road onto the rocks below
The driver had been drinking and was putting on a show
In the back his children, eating chips swilled down with coke
As he overtook his mate and thought it was a joke!
He misjudged the corner, and over the bank he went
The car landed upside down and his children's lives were spent
He survived and scrambled out as water filled the van
Just a broken arm, they say a lucky man
His mate carried on oblivious, your late his wife would say
Not knowing of his drinking pal, or his children in the bay
The fire brigade was sanctioned by a passerby that night
As firemen searched the wreckage in the early morning light
Two children under five, life for them no more
Their blooded bodies strewn, upon the rocky shore
A fireman shakes his head, no words does he exchange
As he gathers up the pieces, the parts he'll rearrange