Who Saved Me? Poem by ivor or ivor.e hogg

I had a strong presentiment
I would meet with an accident.
If I drove home my usual way
and that my life would end this day.

A flash of foresight granted me?
or merely serendipity.
I do not know but I was sure
I had to take the long detour.

I saw the scene so vividly
A car crushed beneath a fallen tree.
I am not superstitious
but this warning was obvious.

I pulled into the first lay by.
I did not stop to wonder why
I was convinced that it was right
to take a different route that night.

I drove along the way I’d come
and took the scenic route back home.
My wife was in a worried state
when I arrived home safe but late.

She’s heard the news on the T.V.,
a car crushed by a fallen tree
About the time I should have been
driving near that fatal scene.

I had been granted a reprieve
by kindly fate we both believe.
That flash of foresight saved my life
and brought me safe home to my wife.

I can’t explain it, do not try
although sometimes I wonder why
I did not die beneath that tree
as I was meant to: Who saved me.

20-Dec-07