Family's Hudson Tragedy-Searching for Answers After Mother Drives Into River, Killing Four; Son Survives
Today I was a superhero
Ma
Dashing myself from the back-seat car window
out into the cold cold cold pluming water
and back onto dry land
Safety
You’d have said I was the smart one
Except
you are not here to see me
submerged where you are
water rushing in
babies no longer able to cry
No one can get to you now
Ma
not me
not the firefighters trying to rescue you
not him
Not him
He will never do that to you again
Never be able to ruin my sister’s life
Ma
I get you
They think I’m too young
but there is no too young to know
in a house like ours
Some people don’t understand
sometime the only way to save a soul
is to kill it dead first
You knew that
Ma
they want to know why
sometimes why
is just the end of the road
leading to water
in a metal coffin
at 40 miles per hour
sometimes you’d rather die with your kin
than bury them
For a second
I wished I were down there
wished whatever survivor instinct
kicked me in the gut
rendered me precious
and pushed me on out of that car
didn’t know you
we could all lay rest together
but auntie say
I must have a purpose
if I’m the one didn’t die
I don’t need no aunties tell me that
I’m on him
Ma
on him like kids on birthday party pizza
him and all the ones like him
I got you
Ma
and they ain’t gonna see me coming
Like a Superhero
Like love.
c. e. amato
4.11
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