On a dark moonless night The traffic snarled past A steady stream of red lights You were a part of it too As I waited at the window For you to make that detour From the highway to get home That day it seemed worse than usual I could not sight your vehicle And could only hear the sounds Of other car horns hooting Anxiety gripped me and I strained In the darkness to catch a glimpse Of you driving by - but I did not Instead it was a blue police van That finally turned into the block When they came up and rang my bell I feared the worst and was right They gently asked me to accompany Them to a place to identify you Like a robot I just followed them Unquestioningly to the morgue There you lay ashen faced - dead Cardiac arrest they quietly said But I knew it was the tiresome traffic After a stressful day that consumed you Kissing you goodbye, I wept uncontrollably And soon thereafter I left, fleeing the city
