The One Warned Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

How did I know that truck was going to hit you?
The sound of it.
The sight of it.
And the warning.

'You should have yelled at me,
If I wasn't paying you any attention.'

Oh...
I did that too!
But that wasn't the warning!

'What are you saying? '

I was the one warned!
Not to feel or have any remorse whatsoever,
If anything should happen to you.
That I had done my job!
Leave matters alone.
Move on.
And I was not expected,
To be emotionally connected.

'Then 'why' are you here? '

Making sure there is nothing else I need to learn!
Sometimes I can be hard headed.
But everyday I'm getting better at it.

'Getting better?
At what? '

Seeing things for what they are!