Without Guilt To Feel Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

The only way to open,
Minds and eyes of those kept closed.
To warning signs flashing and posted,
Along a road...
Speeding with ongoing traffic.
Is to let them go.

And as painful as this is to witness,
With attempts to block out the scene.
Of heard horrifying screams.
Eventually from memory this will fade,
To reminisce as lessons missed.

Since a doing all one can do,
To prevent a repeating...
Of a familiar unchanging view,
Has been done.
Leaving the ones who casually stroll,
Neither surprised nor stunned.
And left without guilt to feel.
Or blame to claim on someone to name!

"You say you had been physically abused,
By the ones you tried to stop...
From walking into speeding highway traffic? "

-Yes.
And after beating me up,
I was told...
They were entitled to do whatever they wanted.
And I was jealous with envy.-

"None of this makes sense.
What do you think,
They were attempting to prove? "

-Who knows.
It can't be stupidity.
They didn't have to do this to themselves,
To prove that.-