The sun sets on an ordinary day

The clouds are purple and the sky is grey

She had had enough of this life deemed so rough

And he just couldn't take it anymore

So out he went, through the front door

With rage seeping through his skin

This was a fight they could never win

Ignorance runs high in the summer heat.

A yellow light turns red on a busy street

But a pick-up truck deliberately proceeds

And crushes a boy of seventeen

The town has never seen such violence

The street's cacophony turns into silence

His eyes, they closed and the last thing he heard

Was the shrill of sirens on the corner of Wales and 3rd.

His body lay there in pure agony

But He could see nothing, feel nothing,

Other than darkness surrounding his senses.

His mind blacked out and the system shut down.

She wished her eyes were deceiving her

But how could eyes be so cruel?

To see the lifeless body of the boy she loved

extricated from the crimson splattered car window.

Through the chaos and hysteria

She screamed his name

Only to be left with a response that never came

A girl so confident was reduced to tears

Like rain they ran down her face

Her world just crumbled to the ground

With no one around to pick up the pieces.

The sun sets red on a cloudless day.