branches of 2013

The sooner you realize:

All those branches blurred with the stars at 50mph, were reaching out to warn you.

They didn't mean to be beautiful.

It just happened like that,

and God, he was trying to speak to you through what you hold closest.

and you took it as a sign for good.

Didn't you see how bent those tying trees were?

Bent because you went too fast

down

down

down

that starry sky.

their golden tears followed the wind of your choice.

and all you did was go

quicker

quicker

quicker

How long did you expect them to trail behind?

did you even know that

with each one of the four rubber tires spinning faster and faster

you crushed the Hand of God.

He was trying to slow you down.

But how could you?

His arms wound tight around you like a boa constrictors body forcing all life out of its prey.

and she drove.

not you.

you, although unaware, were breathing your last breaths

while she thought that you were just experiencing your very first

she tried to see.

it was so incredibly good of her.

but red lights mean stop.

but she saw no red 

only the silhouette of what she assumed was her friend living for the first time.

all the stars above us made it easier.

it made me forget that to the leafs of god,

I was not