The other day I talked to you
Not knowing it was the last time

You drove away out on that road
Sequestered in your prime

The next, I heard, that you had died
Killed by a lax drunk driver

You had died, but he survived
No scrapes, nor bruises either

Unbelieving you were gone, my heart had run to blue
The coming days I could not move, just thinking about you

How could it be the other day, I saw you so alive?
So happy and so jubilant, I never could contrive

Gone from your family, gone from me, gone from a hostile land
Gone, for the crudest reasoning, to never breathe again

Someone else, out on that road, had gone behind the wheel
Subjugated to the cause, held to the life he'd steal

Imprisoned with a hefty price, to live with this forever
Forever bounded by this curse, no, never would it sever

And for the rest of us who weep, here bundled in this pain
Now only memories we keep, just pictures here remain

Days and nights, staring at them, your face so clearly framed
Through all the years left in my life, I'd never lose your name

Outside, one eve, I look above, and see the fairest sky
The stars all spangled far and wide, gleaming that mid-July

Beyond the clouds, I saw your face, so present in it's glow
Just like the time I saw it last, those several nights ago

You spoke to me, and said so soft, that everything's alright
A lonely teardrop, shoots across, out on that crystal night

And then I see your gleaming smile, amongst the star-filled air
I'm put at ease, emptied and mild, I know you're safely there