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Fifteen Seconds.
April 22, 2011
Fifteen seconds.
Fifteen seconds was all it took to change my life forever.
We were on our way to Pumpers.
Yeah I know, Pumpers?
I was looking out the window..
(BANG)(BAM)(SCREECH)
The scream was excruciating.
The glass went everywhere.
The pitch of the tire was explosive.
Fifteen seconds.
Fifteen seconds was all it took for the eighteen wheeler to take the life of an innocent bystander.
The DUI explained everything.
In the blink of an eye, the man was dead.
It took fifteen seconds to change the world around me.
Fifteen horrifying seconds.
© Rebecca B., Bethesda, MD
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This article has 32 comments.
HaleyDRog. GOLD said...
on Jul. 28 2011 at 12:29 am
No, it was not a personal experience. Thank you though!
Hazel-daisy GOLD said...
on Jul. 27 2011 at 7:30 pm
wow...this is really good, very powerful, was this written on personal expierence? because it seems really deep like you had to be there to write it
HaleyDRog. GOLD said...
on Jul. 16 2011 at 6:03 pm
Thanks a lot!
HaleyDRog. GOLD said...
on Jul. 13 2011 at 11:01 am
Thank you!
HaleyDRog. GOLD said...
on Jul. 13 2011 at 10:58 am
Thank you! I really love it when people give me something to think about. Thank for your feddback!
PaRaNoRmAl627 GOLD said...
on Jun. 29 2011 at 7:21 am
i sort of disagree with JessHaley. I mean I do agree in the sense that its short and vague, but i think that there probably isnt too much personal emotion in those fifteen seconds that you could fill this poem with. the discontinuity that Mariam.J talked about is definitely aslo present, and I like how you did that because it shows how much the narrators mind is racing while all of this is going on around him/her. i think you couldve gone a little more in depth with it, but overall i really like it and i think you did a great job :)
HaleyDRog. GOLD said...
on Jun. 26 2011 at 6:51 pm
Thank you for your feedback!
This is kind of short and vague, so I;m not sure how much I actually can say about it, but it was generally well written. I hate to say I feel like it lacked a voice. Also, not to say it lacked meaning, more so that it lacked deep personal emotion. Generally good though, and I liked you're moral. Good job
HaleyDRog. GOLD said...
on Jun. 25 2011 at 12:32 pm
Thank you so much!
HaleyDRog. GOLD said...
on Jun. 25 2011 at 12:32 pm
Thank you!
Myvoice4change SILVER said...
on Jun. 25 2011 at 8:52 am
Its pretty good. It doesn't have a smooth flow of words, but then that's not nessescary always nessescary. And the point is good...got my heart racing a little, too!
HaleyDRog. GOLD said...
on Jun. 21 2011 at 4:49 pm
Thank you, but this wasn't an actual experience so I couldn't tell you how I would feel. Sorry!
HaleyDRog. GOLD said...
on Jun. 21 2011 at 4:47 pm
Thanks. I appreciate it!
HaleyDRog. GOLD said...
on Jun. 21 2011 at 4:47 pm
Thank you.
hopelovepain said...
on Jun. 21 2011 at 1:00 pm
This is good, but I wonder if you could comment a little more on how YOU felt.. hm. Just my personal opinion - great job though! I could almost hear what was happening, and I love the (BANG)(BAM)(SCREECH)
CieraDesiree GOLD said...
on Jun. 14 2011 at 10:22 pm
Aw, this is sad. But nicely written
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